The Oregon daily journal., April 29, 1906, Page 8, Image 8

THE OREGON ' SUNDAY JOURNAL. PORTLAND, SUNDAY MgTw.L.a. AFHIL ta..'lZl3.
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1 P;lrwin " Impressed With
Calmness of People of . San
Francisco in Disaster. -
Styliali Clottes for
Star Marks Dead Body Carried by Relative to th Ferry
Car Track Upheaved in Front of Postofflce.
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hiauia"of Wife' and Daughter and
Only Wanted a Drink. .
Mr. 1L M. Durston received let
ter from E. P. Irwin. ti Sausallto, call
rii. nirt of which ia here reproduced:
Ai I bav nothing to do but ait down
and twiddle my thumb or write lauera.
nnd aa you are doubtless Intereated in
knowing a - lltUe of the condition of
thlnce down In thla part of the country.
1 will write you few llnea. J am stuck
un thle side of the bay. and can't et
bark to the city. I came acroaa last
Friday ntsht to t a niaht'a "eleep, and
th laii mnlni I found that order
had been'tMsued prevejitln; anybody en
tering -the city, ao I cen oiuy siv ni
and wait for aomethlnc to happen.
I waa awakened at i:lt laat Wednes
day morning by tn (.eannquaae, wmcn
tka niut 1rrlflo. thins "of the kind
' that ever happened In this country of
arthquake. Jt nearly threw m out of
bfd. gome people were thrown out of
-Jjed nd through the window, while a
nountleea number of building were com.
pletely wrecked. I wa aleeplng on tbU
aide or the bey that night, but I cot
acroaa to the city by the flrat boat I
rould catch. ' You can't Imagine tha
wreck of the city, even a It waa then
before the Urea had done much damage.
At one""titne I saw the St. Krancla hotel,
the Mill bu tilling, the Kohl building, the
Crocker-Wool worth and the. Merchant'
"Mrcuanga, the largeHftnilldlug n the
city burning;. All. below waa simply
one seething- hell, while the air waa
tilled with an indescribably, roar of the
burning building, emphasised by a con
stant succession of terrllto explosion
from th dynamfrfng. J
"The streets were, filled with people
packing bundles, dragging, trunks or
pushing carts,' trying to save a few
possession from the flames. - Rich and
poor were mixed together, for they were
all only, human being fleeing from ft
common danger. There were - Dagoea,
Jape. Chinese, denlsens of the Barbery
Coast and people from South of Market,
together with th other from th rich
part of th city. All were alike, and all
csrried buudles. ' What they could carry
on their backs or drag after them was
all-that' most of them, saved from the
wreck. :'. ,,.---'-''
"And the calmness ' of . these people.
It appear Incredible now, but during all
the II hour in which .1 wa going from
one part of the burning city to another,
I aaw but three women In tear. I heard
no children crying. I aaw nobody In
hysterica The people jot San Francisco
proved themselves the bravest . lot of
people that the oountry ever had. ' When
they had gone as far as they could, they
would drop down an , the street and
sleep until the approach of the fir
.fjrcedthcm to move farther on. r
' bead Infant Sengfeter. '
' "Some of the night were -pitiful In
the extreme. One man walked dagger
ing down the atreet hi head bloody and
a bundle under each arm. Inspection
showed that the bundlesFarere two dead
children. Another pushed cart down
Van Ness avenue. It contained bis wife
and daughter dead. The only thing he
complained of -waa that the , saloons
were closed and he couldn't get drink.
- "Many of the people, had nothing to
eat for two day, and water wa very
hard to get. In parts of the city It aold
for from IS to 26 cent,per cup.
"You can't Imagine the awful ap
pearance of what wa once one of the
finest and moat beautiful cities In the
United States. ' The entire business part
of the city Is absolutely destroyed. For
miles there la not building left noth
ing but blackened ruins. The sight la
sickening. Half of the residence-..district
Is gone, including the magnlflctent
houses on Nob . Hill,- Russian Hill and
Telegraph Hill, are burned. The Bar
bery Coast Is no more. . Th Latin Quar
ler is la ruins, every restaurant 1 de
stroyed, with the exception of a few
'little place - on the outskirts In the
- vicinity of some of the car bam. There
I not a hotel standing, with the possible
' exception or a fourth class one, and I
believe that went before the fire burned
'. Itself out. The mint and the postofflce
are still standing, though the latter, lust
finished at cost of 17.000.000, Is badly
damaged by b earthquake. The ,
000.000 city hall la the most complete
mass -of ruin one ever saw. It is, of
course. Impossible, even to approximate
the total Ions to the city; but a billion
dollar would not cover it. Between
100,000 and 300,000 are homeless and
' are sleeping In parks, squares and along
the beach, - . -.
"But the city hall will be rebuilt, and
on a greater and more substantial basis
than ever before. - Of . that I am sure,
. for I know the spirit of the people of
San Francisco." . .v .
ThCTln Lodging House and Its
'J. H. Ollbaugh. of Portland, has re
turned from a trip to ruined San Fran
cisco where he secured about 176 views.
Mr. Gilbaugh. who Is an undertaker,
went to Han Francisco the morning the
news of Ihe earthquake occurred. tond of
fered hi services to the officials. Dur
ing his spare minutes, having a camera
with htm, he took pictures, many of
them uncommonly1' striking. In speak
ing of the disaster Mr. Ollbaugh says:
"No ' one can Judge what destruction
has occurdU. ..Landmarks of all kinds
are wiped out except In the case of pome
of the large, buildings like the Call, the
Falrmount Witel or the city halL . The
Are. following, so quickly has hidden
from view the-greater part of the dam
age the earthquake did. What few
places ere exposed show the terrific
force of the shock. - Take, for Instance,
the northwest corner of the city hall.
The Are did not touch it. yet. there is
scarcely one stone . left upon another.
Now and tien you will come1" across
wide gap in the ground or strlks a place
where the sidewalk and streeunrv sunk
In places.- One of the most strrklng pic
tures I saw of the effect-of the earth
quake was at the. postofflce. There all
the ground outside of the foundations
had sunk from four to six feet. Street
car . tracks had been torn from the
ground and buckled by the shock,".,
.' OaklaM Sseaped Only Tire. ..
"lit Oakland . the work of the earth
quake was terrftjle. No one should, for
an Instant, think that Oakland escaped.
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All Jl -:ni n w nij ( 11 J R. J iuur
down Broadway, Oakland, show how
great, was ' the earthquake. - There - Is
scarcely a building on that street that
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ANTICIPATED
Buildings of Inner Quadrangle at
Stanford Can Be Used After
.. - Minor Repair, f
COLLEGE WILL OPEN :
IN AUGUST AS USUAL
Damage to Koble Hall (fonfined to
Two Holes Torn in FltJdts-by Fall
ing of Chimneys Stanford . Resi
dence in 'Frisco Stood Shock.
' The San Jose Herald of April S4 pub
lished . the . following - statement from
engineer at ' Stanford university W
damage done- to the building at that
institution: r
"After a careful examination of th
building used for university purposes,
including Roble and Enclna halls, . we
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la not .cracked and damaged. ' Building
for block were shored up to keep thent
from falling. In some places entire
outside walls had fallen out leaving1
the roof in mid air, held only by th par
titions. . - - -
. "If automobile ; ever proved . their
value It wa during the fire. They wer
tiie only vehicles that could go Into the
burning district. Hundred of persons
would, have perished but for the motor
cars. They ran them until the tlr-.'S
cam tiff and I aaw a number running on
their bare rim. When thoa went, th
machines' were abandoned and many a
costly one became a prey to the flame.
The pavements In the streets were so
hot that a horse could not. stand on
them and if lt"had not been- for the
autos nothing could have gone Into the
burning district to bring out the dead
and Injured. . ... ' . ' .
. . Wading- to Cool .
."Only those who were there can ap
preciate, the great heat ' It came right
through ' the heaviest : kind of i shoes.
All along the street, wherever there hap
pened ' to be' a puddle of water, you
would find men In their bare feet wading
In the water trying -to cool their feet.
I saw merchants and doctors, who had
been working Jn the burning district,
wading in such puddle. .
. 'There' were any number ' of dead
people, but I did not take picture of
any, although I got one accidentally, you
might say.' It was down in front of the
ferryi building. . A number of families
had moved -their belongings to the plasa
in . front of the . building and there,
stretched out On a mattress, was a dead
man, Th family had brought the corpse
And that the damage from the recent
earthquake la much less than was an
ticipated. "'': .. "
'"Th buildings of th Inner quadrangle,
the one-story buildings of . tlte outer
quadrangle (with on exception), the
Zoology . building, th Physiology' build
ing, the ; Assembly hall, the Library the
old Engineering building, the machine
shop, th foundry and th mechanic:!
laboratory, are substantially intaot and
can be used after a few minor repairs.
. "The four-corner, two-story buildings
and the small one-atory Physic build
ing of th outer quadrangle, the forge
shop, th woodworking shop and tf
Chemistry building will require partial
rebuilding of some of the wall.
"In Enclna hall the south wall of
the east and west wings will require
partial reconstruction, also those por
tions Injured by the two falling stone
chimneys. The fall of one of the chim
neys, which tore through th floors to
the basement;' caused the death of one
student Aside from th damage noted
above, the building , aa a whole la unin
jured and perfectly' safe. . t . v
"The damage to Roble hall Is" con
fined to the two hole torn in the floor
by. the falling chimney. . Th remain
der of the tiulldlng show practically no
evidence of having passed through an
earthquake. - ,. . .f
Oca Open oa Time.
. "In th opinion of the committee, such
of th building mentioned above a art
necessary for carrying on th univer
sity work, can easily be made ready for
occupancy and safe us In time for the
opening of the university on August 23.
"Our full and detailed examination of
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Shoes . With Water' Because Streets
.Are Hot. '."
along with' the rest of their. belonging.
On place , where I took . picture
they told me there were seventy bodies
in the building or rather under it ruin,
for It had collapsed with th earth
quake shock. It was located at Third
end Mission Streets, and some persons
who had lived In it told me that only
two had escaped with thelr llves. They
had been there all the time waiting for
others but not a one had appeared.
- reopl Good aTatared. - j : l
The people throughout wee good-natured.
In fact a number took It aa
huge Joke. I wa going along Market
street, a piano' firm had moved a num
ber of fine pianos out on th sidewalk.
A family carrying their -belongings,
wrapped t In sheets, came along.- They
put their bundles down and the woman
opsned bine of the piano and gave a
concert. Yhe family Joining In th sing
ing.' When I took their picture they
were singing with, great' glee, "In the
Shade of the Old Apple Tree. :
"At .Seventh- and Mission : street I
cam across a queer sight. A number of
those who figured In the Incident told
me they- formerly lived in Portland.
Before, the ruins of ' their - home had
cooled, some people had made a rude hut
of tlrt that had come off various roof.
The- head of the outfit was an Irishman
and . he' had the Irish wit. Somehow
he had saved a small Irish flag and this
waa drat tacked on ' the tin shanty.
There were nineteen - living in this
shanty, to say-nothing of several dogs,
a parrot 'and other animals. However,
they were aa lively as could be and took
their : misfortune as Joke.: .That they
did so was evident from the sign on the
tin shanty.. It reading 'Room to Let.' "
the buildings from foundation to roof
shows that the aettml damage to their
stability is less than might be Inferred
from external appearance. "
- "Signed by the committee;- '
"CHARLES B. WINO, , ' '
-'. A Structural Engineer. '
' "WILLIAM F. DURAND, -'
"' f - Mechanical Engineer. .
"ARTHUR B. CLARK. Architect
"CHARLES E. HODGES... ' ' .
' i -' .'-- -Architect.
"CHARLES D. ' MARX, ..
Civil Engineer, Chairman."
The injuries to . Stanford university
by the. earthquake ..of April Is are, In
brief, a follow:
L ' Wreckage of the Memorial church
by' th fail of th heavy spire, which
crashed through th nave, the air blow
ing off the upper part of both end of
the church. The walla generally, of
tfil construction, are Intact, . but th
tUllding I ruined.
2. Wreck of the unfinished library.
The greo dome and It steel support
are. pujiarmed, but their swaying com
pletely wrecked the rest of th build
ing. ' .. '
' S. Wreck of th new gymnasium, of
brick, raced with atone. it
4. - Wreck of part of th Art museum,
which were' mad of brick, faced with
cement. Th central part of concret
strengthened by steel rods Is intact
6. Th Stanford residence - In San
Francisco, - a huge .wooden structur,
heavily built, was not harmed by th
earthquake, but 1 completely consumed
by Are.
6. The' Inner quadrangle and engi
neering shops of heavy masonry and on
story high, are unharmed.
Top Bnildlngs TJahanaed.
7. Th outer quadrangle contain four
large building reinforced by steel, the
laboratories of a oology, . , botany and
physiology, with the temporary library
and assembly hall. These are virtually
unharmed. ,
S. The power-house was wrecked by
th tall stone chimney, which wa
napped off like th lash of whip. ,
r The Memorial arch hsd Its upper
part snapped off and 1 split almost to
the base, so that It la an entir wrack.
This structure wa of brick, reinforced
with steel and faced with stone.
40. Th Chemistry building lost all
Its chimneys' and! I externally damaged
by th fall of part of it ston facing.
The building and It content are little
Injured-'
11. . th four large building of th
outer quadrangla, of brick unrelnforced,
and faced with store, are somewhat
damaged, the History building least, the
incomplete Mining building most
12. Roble hall, women's dormitory, of
concrete with steel wires, is absolutely
unharmed except for the fall of two or
namental chimney.
. 13. Enclna Hall, men's dormitory,
very large, finely built stone building,
wss Injured by th fait of aton chim
neys, on young man being killed. Th
building also ha serious crack In each
of two corners, but 1 otherwise un
harmed.
Th wooden building on th ground
lost only chimney and part of plaster
ing. No injury wa don to book and
very little to apparatus or collection'
Th working part of th university as'
distinct from.it architectural effect
I little harmed. The most effective
part of It architecture, the Inner ar
cades, with thelf. Spanish arches and
trwtrs. Is wholly Undisturbed.
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