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Golden Gate Park 1906
San Francisco
Apr. 20

Dear Gussie,

We are alive and not hurt. Thank Almighty God for it. I don't know whether I can write an intelligent or legible letter, but I thought you all would like to know how we fared. Surely, I never expected to be alive and writing to you today. This is a book leaf - if I can get an envelope I will send this, there are no stamps to be had. I wrote to you all on Monday night, before the earthquake and & have been out of doors every since. Wednesday morning 5 or 6 o'clock. We were all packed to leave, the hotel is burned down. It rocked so we could not stand to get our clothes on, it was only eight stories, but we were on the 2nd floor. We got our clothes on and got our trunks in the street. We paid $7.00 to get our two trunks to the park. There are thousands of people here, rich and poor. No one has anything, but a few bed clothes and clothes, the whole town is burned up, you can't tell the streets. We sat in the first park we got to until the fire reached us and saw all the main part of the town burn. Such pitiful sights you never heard of people men and & women carrying their good all day and night. I did not see any of the dead