Show RELIEF LOOKED GOOD fOOD TO DRUEHL After Being Thirty Hours Without Without Without With With- out Food He Met Corn Committee DRIVEN OUT BY THE FIRES Hauls Trunks Prom From One Hotel to Another An An- other othel to See Seo Them Finally Go Up lip in lii Smoke Smoke One of the tho most stirring features o of the San Francisco Frncisco fire re to F. F A. A Druehl who returned from that city with wih Mrs Druehl on the noon train yesterday was his experience in hauling four trunks down four flights of or stairs In Inthe Inthe inthe the Palace hotel loading them into a a. wagon wason having them hauled to tho the St. St St Francis Frncis and seeing them ultimately go up UI In iii smoke Mr 11 Druehl seemed in splendid spirits although worn and tired and anti showing some marks of ot fatigue from his experience I was awakened when the first shock came said Mr 11 Druehl last I evening by being tossed about In Inthe Inthe inthe the bed hed I jumped out on tho the foo floor an and staggering dressed as best I could while Mrs s. h Druehl did the same The building was creaking and anti groanIng groanIng groan groan- Ing and while J I was alarmed it did not affect me greatly as I thought it i merel merely one of the tho kind that that San Francisco has so often ofen experienced l Fires c Sturt Start Quickly lt We Ve Vc got into the hallway halway and found the lights were all al out and the elevator stopped running We Ve got down stairs four Cour as quickly as s a- a possible and ran into the center of Market street I saw two or three fires fres even that quickly one at about Market and Beale Deale and one Olle at Second and Mission and then seemingly Ina in ina ina a moment the sky was crimson from the he reflection of or n a dozen going In dJ- dJ dif dlf- torrent ferrent directions I I 1 told Mrs Druehl I would take her to some somo place and leave her while shile I got our baggage She said sid she he would Mould go with me that where I went she was going right along We Vc went yent ent back bae to our OUI room packed the trunks and then I 1 pulled them down those thoc four foul flights flights- Anyway I 1 got them down and to the thc sidewalk I wanted to have lave them taken to the St. St Francis FrancIs The he first I saw wanted 5 5 for each trunk the next wanted 20 a trunk A A. transfer man came caine along who took thorn them over for 2 each I asked permission for my wife ife and another lady Jady to ride over on thu the load which was wa granted Driven el 11 in iii h by 13 Flames When wo we got sol to the SU St St Francis Frncis the trunks were taken taleen down stairs and we went Into the dining room where we got a a cup of or coffee coffeo and one bun each ech We Ve tried to get a room but found it St i entirely out of the question That night Wednesday we staid with witha a friend of mine near Jones and Pine Pino as the fire tre had reached readied the Su St S1 Frncis Fran Fran- Frn- Frn cis Next evening we went as far V as a Van Ness Nes avenue where we camped all al night m my wife sleeping on the sidewalk and ld I tramping up and down About 2 o'clock In Iii the tho mornIng mornIng morn- morn Ing lug E. E E. E Calvin passed We Ve talked a moment and he asked me if there was anything he could do but I told him I thought not He said sid he would probably have havo his offices on the mole and If I wanted anything he could do doto doto doto to let him know I had walked down town Thursday Thursday Thurl- Thurl Thurs Thurs- day anti and watched the progress of the flames fame It It I was something terrible The fremen firemen and others were tr trying ln to stop the flames fames by hy dynamiting When the dynamite gave out the they bombarded bombard bombard- ed cd the tho houses housel by hy tiring firing cannon at them Thore There was wa a boom and there then thena therea a I wall wal of the building they were firIng frIng fir fir- fr- fr Ing lug at crumbled and the tho building felt fell It I made mado me inc sick to see those beau beau- trul buildings au all al going The lire fins Irn spread so rapidly rapid that It I was va-s almost Impossible Imposible for fOI those men to keep ahead of Il It Friday morning at G 5 o'clock I 1 went to a Iv livery ry stable stallo to get a rl rig I had bad cn engaged a ed tho thu night before hut but th the man told m me I could not have havu il ilaa ILas It IL as aa were all al out they were I out hauling his carriages to places place of ol s safety safely fet I Chinese in iii Drones Uro I II I Finding we ic could not get et a u rig we started start d to walk to the lw ferry ferr We Vc hud bud to go out the end of Van Ne Ness avenue to the tho beach and skirt around th the wharves to get there We e made several sev soy oral eral erl detours to avoid burning and falling falling falIng fall fall- fal- fal ing buildings Among other places we passed was Chinatown That was wasa a sight The were turning out in droves Just l like e ants do when you OU turn over an ant hill hi running about jabbering making faces and so 6 excited that I 1 would have ha laughed had there been any laughs going gohS on 01 But there weren't verent Those hose who who weren't verent weeping stood stolid as it if the very ery ver life in them was a chilled and frozen At last we reached the ferry and happened to catch the tho first t boat boat We u went to Berkeley where wo were ere met b by members member of tho the relief Ieler committee who asked ased u us uz if It we were hung hungry As sc we c hadn't hadt tatE eaten for thirty hour hours houra s I told them we were very et hungry They fed us and then lien asked us our plans I said sId there thre was a n young man there who had been a bookkeeper for me inc and we wc would like hike to go to his place They hunted him up and then thou took u us there In an automobile After staying there a couple of oC days we wc came on home People Are Arc Sal Sanguine I do not know that thai I can tell tel you of the terrible things we ie saw sw It I waal was wa all al horror piled pied on horror honor devastation ion tion ton anti and ane ruin What had not been shattered by the earthquake was devoured devoured de do- b by the flames The burned district covers covel's an nn area mea almost Impossible Impossible impossible sible to compute But the people are vcr very sanguine and I J expect to sec see a larger larer et city It I was before |