Show LETTER FROM OAKLAND interesting description ot of the earthquake by a former partite scenes that ate aie heartrending file many friends of mies millio little roote root and ber bar brother usury will bo be glad to learn that they escaped injury ill Cali fornias aul they realdo at oakland and in ft a letter to re ived yesterday by mrs S E flay the young lady gives a very loter estice de of some of the llie horrors of that terrible time the letter wits dated april and a portion of it felloe foH fol loe ofte you can no deer or know the horror of 0 it a all 11 it baa and is ia terrible I 1 will nevor never bo be able to arito rate it go BO you can understand it sod nd I 1 do pray that HC a or anyone mor may never have bavo to pass paes through anything he 1110 it again miss a friend of 0 bod and I 1 were sleeping together aben becal the dreadful eboch came the bouse which is ia a three story etory one rocked so BO that my piano in ia my room vaa aa jerked out from tho sod nod back again and out agam again and everything on top ot of it was thrown off the house ib vibrated ibra rated lel so flo that some of the pictures oreB banging on the walls wall were turned comp comple letia toly ly around with their fa faed eg to the well wall my aly m alt rit ing doek desk whick stands near the head of my couch was tipped over and every thing in it and on top of it was thrown across the room the chimney on tile the hoube bouse was thrown down and A great quality of plaster foil fell from the ceiling calling in ID the back parlor farr fan said and I 1 just juat cluing to ench ancl other I 1 ID grim terror it certainly corta iDly seemed as if every instent the house would go BO down that when on abai milkman camo came lie said tie lc was maeon on the v m ingon when tho the shock CAIDO and lie iio alfil no 00 ODO ode would how the louses lie he said they actually t tipped oscr ocr halt belf A way ay and back again sod and HO a what were 10 in the houses have no reason to doubt what he laid amid it was something terrific terri dc th ere re is hardly a chimney left in oakland but we me aro are all right except everyone is frightfully eyen DOW aad at tie je six eix days f feinle it at happened several houses jumped frothi their brick foundations two IHO and abre a feet lod Bilow comys nye sod three of tile anglis abet I 1 L have seen I 1 me iio dropped from two to six BIX of ir elget feet fact such ou on nuver behold he hell lot ua as badty a if oakland was waa shako it il in ill to jo sail bail fran alo for tho di iri ay iy rare firo dil r i since fit earthquake is if ricket uli oil I 1 aou ou about hoar fill chit tales of oc puffer ing I 1 everyone eve Over rione otie alio lie was waa over ibera at one time liono they had forty fire over tile a to light glit six eix inika of gro fire but it WIB was tile loss oss its i aery direction is IB terrible lorri blo but the people w who ito are lome luea lead it caphes your hoart heart rebe to see eco thoin them yet yo they all keep cheerful through it all it is remarkable bow aeu they 0 o but the secret of it all is they ore are BO 90 thankful that they with tb beir cir lives that everything everyl hiDi else elee is ie ile every church hall ball park and every available place ot of oli alter is ia used and still many annoy hundreds are without shelter we love buve had eight staying with us ua the havo charge of everything every carloads upon carloads carloa of provisions are being sent to in that to fb the ono bright thing abbat it everybody is kindi los IB angeles Ang elfee sent up carloads yesterday fresa sent a carload carlo oil of hard bard boiled eggs together pith rather other and this llna mornin ir 15 carload carlo oda of cooked food came I 1 believe eory thing will mil bo be 03 aji in time pa me it in 10 wonderful hou to ve so i an nd d systematically every mery tiling is ie baor ban barci lieu led |