Bartlett letters

[modern notation: Earthquake letter 18 Apr., '06. p. 7b]

happen tho I don't see how it could.

[preprinted] STANFORD UNIVERSITY, CALIFORNIA

April 19 - 1906 Thurs A.M.

Dearest Folks

Well I just went & took my telegram off file. Prof. Green is going to Oakland in an auto & try to get them thru from there. Goodness knows I've tried to get you word that I'm still alive. We are simply cut off from all over as if we were on a desert island. No trains no telegraph or telephone wires etc. I don't know whether there'll be any more college or not - am waiting to see before I know what I'll do & can't get home now anyway.

Mr. Hayne went down to [Palie?] [to bring?] everything he could - or else we're apt to be without food - can't

[modern notation: Nana's letter, Apr. 19, '06, p. 1b]

use the stove (still get our meals from the camp fire.) S. F. & S. J. are burned up - the business parts. The S. F. people are panic stricken - walking out coming to [Palie?] those who can get here to get something to eat so we have to watch out or will have a famine.

The business part of S. F. is utterly wiped off everything & the fire has now taken to the residence parts. All day yesterday & today we heard reports of the dynamite where they're blowing up building to kept the fire from spreading. Ashes fell all day too & the air was full of smoke.

We hear mostly rumors of places - some thru autos & this A. M. trains are going between S. J. & S. F.

[modern notation: Nana's letter, Apr. 19, '06, p. 2]

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[preprinted: STANFORD UNIVERSITY, CALIFORNIA]

I'm wild to hear from you, we've heard good & bad rumors - but chiefly that you're all right in the south. Heaven help it may be so.

We spent yesterday out doors - just running in & out when occassion demanded. There were quakes all day & all night.

Last night we all sat around on the lawn made fudge & read a story by candle light (but I couldn't tell what it was about. too crazy to listen - tho really you never would imagine I could be so calm. I wasn't very excited after the 1st terrific - awful shake [insert] & then I didn't know what I was doing [/preprinted]. It was just like

[modern notation: Nana's Earthquake Ltr - Apr. 19, '06, p.2b]

some one had picked our house up & shook it with all their might - everything & everybody just rattled around.

Ben brot our mattresses out into the garden & we put them all along in a row & slept out there. I was wild to take a flash light but was afraid to light the powder. We didn't take off any of our clothes & put plenty over us so we weren't cold but this A. M. our top covers were soaked with dew - none of us took cold. The Haynes & Spencers slept on the porch all night but all the rest in the garden. Guards patrolled all over the campus all night - pacing back & forth all night. The boys took turns of course. The guard was