. The history of the San Francisco disaster and Mount Vesuvius horror . CHAPTER IX TALES TOLD BY SURVIVORS Guests Who Escaped Safely from the Hotels RelateThrilling Experiences—Saw Buildings Sway, Col-lapse and Burst Into Flames—Mad Rush to theFerry Docks—Grand Opera Stars in Deadly Peril—Spend Night in Open Air Camps with Other Refu-gees—Olive Fremstad, Refusing to Flee, Aids In-jured and Destitute—Soldier Shoots Man to SaveHim from Death in Flames. In the great hotels of San Francisco, which weredestroyed, were hundreds of guests who barely es-caped with their lives. Many of them had thrilli
. The history of the San Francisco disaster and Mount Vesuvius horror . CHAPTER IX TALES TOLD BY SURVIVORS Guests Who Escaped Safely from the Hotels RelateThrilling Experiences—Saw Buildings Sway, Col-lapse and Burst Into Flames—Mad Rush to theFerry Docks—Grand Opera Stars in Deadly Peril—Spend Night in Open Air Camps with Other Refu-gees—Olive Fremstad, Refusing to Flee, Aids In-jured and Destitute—Soldier Shoots Man to SaveHim from Death in Flames. In the great hotels of San Francisco, which weredestroyed, were hundreds of guests who barely es-caped with their lives. Many of them had thrillingstones to tell of the perils they passed through andthe awful sights they saw. Egbert H. Gold, president of the Chicago Car Heat-ing Company, was at the Palace Hotel. I was asleepon the seventh floor/ he said, at the time of the firstquake. I was thrown out of my bed and halfwayacross the room. Immediately realizing the importof the occurrence and fearing that the building wasabout to collapse, I made my way down the six flightsof stairs and into the ma
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