fying scenes were witnessed by the survivors. Many of those who
escaped had tales of terror to tell. Mr. J. P. Anthony, as he fled from
the Ramona Hotel, saw a score or more of people crushed to death, and
as he walked the streets at a later hour saw bodies of the dead being
carried in garbage wagons and all kinds of vehicles to the improvised
morgues, while hospitals and storerooms were already filled with the
injured. Mr. G. A. Raymond, of Tomales, Cal., gives evidence to the same
effect. As he rushed into the street, he says that the air was filled
with falling stones and people around him were crushed to death on all
sides.

Others gave testimony to the same effect. Samuel Wolf, of Salt Lake
City, tells us that he saved one woman from death in the hotel. She was
rushing blindly toward an open window, from which she would have fallen
fifty feet to the stone pavement below. "On my way down Market Street,"
he says, "the whole side of a building fell out and came so near me that
I was covered and blinded by the dust. Then I saw the first dead come
by. They were piled up in an automobile like carcasses in a butcher's
wagon, all bloody, with crushed skulls, broken limbs and bloody faces."

These are frightful stories, exaggerated probably from the nervous
excitement of those terrible moments, as are also the following
statements, which form part of the early accounts of the disaster. Thus
we are told that "from a three-story lodging house at Fifth and Minna
Streets, which collapsed Wednesday morning, more than seventy-five
bodies were taken to-day. There are fifty other bodies in sight in the
ruins. This building was one of the first to take fire on Fifth Street.
At least 100 persons are said to have been killed in the Cosmopolitan,
on Fourth Street. More than 150 persons are reported dead in the
Brunswick Hotel, at Seventh and Mission Streets."

Another statement is to the effect that "at Seventh and Howard Streets
a great lodging house took fire after the first shock, before the guests
had escaped. There were few exits and nearly all the lodgers perished.
Mrs. J. J. Munson, one of those in the building, leaped with her child
in her arms from the second floor to the pavement below and escaped
unhurt. She says she was the only one who escaped from the house. Such
horrors as this were repeated at many points. B. Baker was killed while
trying to get a body from the ruins. Other rescuers heard the pitiful
wail of a little