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Show Hj SAN FRANCISCO'S CALAMITY. W The calamity that lias befallen tho M people of San r-'ranclsco is a terrible one. Many aro dead, others are (lylntr, W thousands arc homeless, many are W hungry, the business life of the city is Hi disrupted, and all Is choas. Where M peace, happiness and plenty reigned supreme on Tuesday, now all Is sor- M j row and misery if not absolute terror. 1 It must bo a pitiful scene today, and while wo say It, how many icallo at this distance how truly pitiable It Is? All ri.iy Tuesday :ijo,000 souls In San M ' l'ranciseo went about their business M or social duties and pleasures, and M there was little thought of the inor- row. Abiding In the faith that their H great metropolis would be a Boston In fl ; live jears, a Chicago In ten and a M I greater New York in liftccn, business fl I men busted themselves ovur great M , transactions and prepared to build M higher structures Not reckoning M ( that death and destruction were to M come ero the morrow's sun should ban- M I ish darkness, :i'.0,(KM) people sought m ' their home or social pleasures In the M evening hours Just as liO.OOO will In M Cache tonight, and then they retired M i In conlldcnce that they would on the M morrow lesume their business and ' ' , pleasures as they had ever done. i f And no warning came to the sleep- 1 crs until they awoke ere dawn In M i the midst of what must have seemed H 1 i hell Itself. The earth heaved and M i (liiheicd, men started from their beds H. I with blanched faces, the women and ' children screamed in their terror, and M the crash of falling buildings struck M the cjilll of death to the stoutest M hearts. The shock lasted three inin- iutes, and who can doubt that that time seemed an eternity. Families rushed to the streets for safety, only H to be caught under falling walls The H husband saw his wife and children H crushed at his side and the wife and H children were made husbaudless and H fatherless even as they were ludcly H awakened from their slumber. The H earth seemed riven under foot to H I stand still seemed certain death, to H I move seemed to Invite It. Men, wo- H f men and children were frenzied. H f In an hour the sun shone the same H as yesterday, but Its beams fell on tho H t most widespread devastation, tho H greatest ruin, human woe and misery H ever wrought on American soil. L'OO,- H I 000 people were homeless, without food H ' and clothing; tho whole business sec- H tion of the city was a jumbled pile of H brick and steel; the costliest and most H ' magnlllecnt buildings in the city were H ! scarcely better than the humblest hut H; , the day before all was ruin. H ; ' And then came that terror oftcr- H, rors, lire, and the hungry llanies are H 4 blill licking up tho palaces and huts H t, of rich and poor. The til o king has raged H with little opposition, for the tire H lighting apparatus was destroyed by H , falling walls and water mains had IH ' f burst. What was not destroyed by H the (make I-. i i be consumed by lire H ' undat this writing It Is believed that H few, If any, of the residence sections H I I , of the city will escape the conllagra- H tion All Is despair mM I , The one ray of light Is the rcspon- 9 sheness of the human heart and H , pockelbook from all corners of this na- H I tion and the .mbe Congress voted H ! J 1,000,000 relief, and every city and B " ( )i town of consequence has ollered any H ! aid asked for, and many have sent H i i , without asking tl.c need. Utah Is re- H ' spondlng with the rest, the L. 1). S. H I church giving $10,000, Salt Lake city B '. ii several thousand, Logan and tho other H ' towns what they can. H r The sympathy of the nation is H aroused as never before, and In the H I faco of such disaster men recognize H i their helplessness to prevent and their H '"' Inability to alleviate greatly. Men B '?' como to know that once under the H i crust mankind's heart lcats true H everywhere m l, H except faith. 'The prayer of faith shall heal the sick' was to him and his following the end of all medicine. That kind of miracles he pel formed, and his assistants performed, even although al-though death and sickness were not banished from Ion, and his daughter died from a burn, and he Is hlmscl.' sulicrlng from a stroke. The Ilible forbids pig meat, and so did he, and he added tobacco to the prohibition, as well as all Intoxicating liquors. The Ulblo requires tithes.and so did he. He taught polygamy, and this doctrine is found In the lllblc. The Illblo creates a theocracy, and so did he, and such was his divine autocratic rule over the church; he, the Messenger, the very volco of God, being tho single personal proprietor of all the property of.lon. It was a great Idea of his to create a city which he believed would grow Into a state, and llnally embrace the world, In which tho full biblical rule would bo obeyed; and we are not sorry to have the remarkable experiment experi-ment carried out tolls possible end, for on tho sociological side there is much good In It." |