you, hustle!' The soldiers took delight in picking out the best dressed
men and keeping them at the brick piles for long terms. I passed them
in the shelter of a provision wagon, afraid that even my pass would not
save me. Two men are reported shot because they refused to turn in and
help."

Many of the dead, of course, will never be identified, though the names
were taken of all who were known and descriptions written of the others.
A story comes to us of one young girl who had followed for two days the
body of her father, her only relative. It had been taken from a house
on Mission Street to an undertaker's shop just after the quake. The fire
drove her out with her charge, and it was placed in Mechanics' Pavilion.
That went, and the body rested for a day at the Presidio, waiting
burial. With many others, she wept on the border of the burned area,
while the women cared for her.

VICTIMS TAKEN FROM THE RUINS.

On Friday eleven postal clerks, all alive, were taken from the debris of
the Post Office. All at first were thought to be dead, but it was found
that, although they were buried under the stone and timber, every one
was alive. They had been for three days without food or water.

Two theatrical people were in a hotel in Santa Rosa when the shock came.
The room was on the fourth floor. The roof collapsed. One of them was
thrown from the bed and both were caught by the descending timbers and
pinned helplessly beneath the debris. They could speak to each other and
could touch one another's hands, but the weight was so great that they
could do nothing to liberate themselves. After three hours rescuers
came, cut a hole in the roof and both were released uninjured.

Even the docks were converted into hospitals in the stringent exigency
of the occasion, about 100 patients being stretched on Folsom street
dock at one time. In the evening tugs conveyed them to Goat Island,
where they were lodged in the hospital. The docks from Howard Street to
Folsom Street had been saved, the fire at this point not being permitted
to creep farther east than Main Street. Another series of fatalities
occurred, caused by the stampeding of a herd of cattle at Sixth and
Folsom Streets. Three hundred of the panic-stricken animals ran amuck
when they saw and felt the flames and charged wildly down the street,
trampling under foot all who were in the way. One man was gored through
and through by a maddened bull. At least a dozen persons', i