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Description
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Letter from Frank and Clara (Woodroffe) Pryor to Mother about the San Francisco earthquake.
letter, Sites, California, April 19, 1906, Dear mother, Clara and Rob were to go to San Jose to day with a neighbor a Mr. Shearrin and we went as far as Sites and there heard of the dreadful earth quake at San Francisco and near by towns, She could have gone there by way of Sacramento but was afraid to go There is a great deal of uncertainty and distress among the people everywhere as most of them have friends or relatives in the city. We do not know to what extent the trouble is but hear all manner of reports. Claras health is very bad and was just able to go away Now she will have to wait for some time may be until the 15 of June as the Dr is going to Japan and will not get back until then. I may take her to see some other physician possibly in Sacramento if we decide not to wait for Dr Wayland I hope this will find all of you well, we were very fortunate in not starting to the city earlier as Clara would have gone sooner if she had been well enough and would have stopped in San Francisco and might have been caught there If I had gone with her as we at one time expected I would have stopped at one of the hotels in the part of the city that we understand was destroyed. If she hads gone with me Shearrin she would have stopped at his wifes place. She keeps a lodging house and used to keep a hotel in Sites. I suppose Frank remembers them Every thing up here now is lovely The most beautiful time of the year We have nearly 200 little turkeys hatched and a good many hens setting. Clara will add a P.S. Love to all. From Frank. Dear Mother, I add aline to Frank's letter. I am glad to be home safe and sound. Oh such reports as have come to Sites to way from San Francisco. If all had gone as we intended I would have been caught in San Francisco, but I was sick and didn't start, and ???? I have every thing to be thankful for. You will see it all in the papers. I hope you are well and all the rest too. You see I had planned to go through San Francisco and be there a day or two which would have caught me F??? is ????ing the city and has destroyed several large cities So we hear, Love to all from Clara (the letter is written by Frank Woodroffe and Clara Ruth (his sister) to their mother in Mt. Airy, it was written while Frank was visiting his sister in Sites, California, it describes the historic San Francisco earthquake)
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Date
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April 19 1906
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Rights
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http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-NC/1.0/
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Type
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text
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Identifier
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Mta_WFC_93044.014_mam
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Source
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Marjorie Bell Castelda
