A BEDLAAI OF CONFUSION
There was no complaint from anyone, no disorder. There was m> apparent roaliat.on cf the awful calamity. Two awful days and nights 'had deadened ail fear" aad left them without other object than to get away At the ferry station there was utter confusion. Mingled in indescribable masses were people of tvery race upon the earth. Common micJortuno and the paramount emotion cif mail —huncer —obiiteratod all racial distinctkms. Degroded Chinese lying on thjir pallets of rags, sept near the exliattsted wliit-o women with in their arms. Bedding, houst-'iiold furnituro of every doscriptio , n, pet ariimalts and bric-a-brac, luggage, and packagce of every sort, packed almost every foot cf space. Men spread their bedding on tho asphalt pavement and slept the sWp of exhaustion, while all around a bedlam of contusion This is a d.icription of the scenes that marked tho exodus of San Francisco's population.
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Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12507, 21 May 1906, Page 8
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