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Communications for publication should be sent to F. L. CUBLEY, Potsdam, N. Y CALIFORNIA NUMBER. onditions have sadly changed in our beautiful unfortunate city since these letters have been gathered from various parts of the coast, but I am going to send them just the same, for these will tell you what we were, and I am going to write just a little of present conditions, for such wildly exaggerated reports have gone out, that we who love our city, even in the midst of her desolation, want to correct false impressions as far as possible. Do not for one moment think we are sitting among the ruins bewailing our unfortunate condition. Why! workmen fairly burned their hands clearing away the smoking debris to build larger and more beautiful buildings. Already the business and residence districts are alive with workmen, and in five years our city will be the pride of the entire nation. The calamity was frightful, the horrors and suffering unspeakable, but we are trying to forgea and look forward to the future with courage. Just a word regarding the earthquake, for dozens of letters have come to me from the East, stating, "Do not live in such a terrible place, where earthquakes occur right along," and others to the same effect. The destruction of the city was not caused by the earthquake. Please bear that in mind. While it did much damage, it was absolutely nothing compared with the devastation wrought by fire. The night of the seventeenth of April, a fierce fire had been raging all night, and then when the earthquake occurred at 5:16 a. m. the morning of the eighteenth, the water mains broke. This caused the frightful conflagration. Two or three small fires were started by live wires, but these could easily have been extinguished with water in the pipes and hydrants, had it not been for the other big one. So do not think we will be shaken to death again, for such a calamity as ours has never befallen any city twice. Why ours? Of the horrors I shall not write. You have read about enough. Suffice it to say that no person could endure the mental agony we did for three days, many times in his life and retain his reason. I want to tell you one story which was told me for a fact, that you may see what absurd things have been circulated. With his eyes bulging from his head with fear. a man told me that on a ranch in Bolinas the earth opened swallowed all the cattle, then closed again leaving their tails sticking above ground. Refugees leaving the state are telling that facts are being suppressed regarding loss of life, etc., and that everything that is horrible is existing here, deaths, pestilence, etc. That is absolutely false. Do not believe us to be more unfortunate than we are. Doubtless some of my friends will be glad to know that our home was one of five saved, while for two or |