1906 Earthquake

asked for a pass into the city -- he looked me over rather carefully and asked a few questions, then gave me a pass to San Jose endorsed to the police of S.Fr. besides -- Just as I was walking over the way, along came Harry Haehl in a buggy with one of the Burrell girls of San Jose. I was heaps glad to see him, and got a lot of information about the extent and damage of the earthquake, and the probable extent of the fire, which he had seen at about eleven o'clock that day --He said the shock was heavy enough to give him a good start out of bed, and to bump him from and between the walls while the furniture chased him about, but that the loss of life outside the chinese quarter would not exceed 700, also that he had seen the Mark Hopkins and Nob Hill going in the morning but that there was water along Van Ness Ave. and the stand would be made there. All of this started hope anew, and I wanted to go at once