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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