NARROW ESCAPE. 
Californian Writes Friends in 
Manchester of His Hair-Breadth 
Escape; His Eight Companions 
Swallowed Up in Mountain 
Slide. 
J- W.. Walker of Alma, Santa 
@lara\ Co., .California,, who had a 
most fortunate escape from death 
in the recent calamity, writes of 
the affair to Israel Harvey and 
family, friends of his in Manches- 
ter. He is employed by a wealthy 
Californian and was with the fam- 
ily at their mountain home 40 or 50 
miles from San Francisco. He had 
left for the city the day before the 
*quake, while those whom he had 
left behind were swallowed up in 
a mountain slide and killed. In his 
letter he says: 
“IT must say I never want to go 
through another such time. I 
might have been killed with some 
of the unfortunates, but it was not 
my lot. ‘J. W. Walker’ was report- 
ed to be one of nine buried in a 
mountain slide, but I left there the 
day before on horseback for Alma, 
and was riding through the moun- 
tains when the earthquake nearly 
frightened me to death. The moun- 
tain seemed to rise up and the trees 
bent every way; my horse tried to 
go over the mountain side—the 
ground opened and she fell with 
both hind feet into the crevice. It 
was something terrible. 
“On arriving in Alma on the 
morning of the 18th I found rail- 
roads, telephone and telegraph all 
cut off. Buildings were down in 
all directions; the people all in 
despair. Then I began to despair 
for my baby. I could not leave 
until next morning. We all slept 
on the hill that night, or rather 
camped there, for very little sleep 
was possible for the earth trembled 
quite often. 
“Early morning I saddled up 
and struck out for Mt» View; I 
could stand the pressure no longer 
for I wanted to see my little baby; 
it was the ride of a life time. I 
passed Agneus Asylum where 120 
were killed and all stone and brick 
houses were down. When I came 
in sight of home my heart near 
failed me. The tank house, 45-foot 
high wind mill, and tank with 7500 
gallons of water were down, and I 
could see a big hole in the roof, 
about 8 feet square. The chimney 
had fallen and gone through the kit- 
chen into the basement, but you can 
just imagine how I felt when at last 
those little arms clasped around my 
neck. I thanked God from my 
heart and am not ashamed to say 
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“My loss will amount to about 
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long as we are all safe. I was re- 
ported killed, as I said before. I am 
sorry to say the other eight were 
buried alive, poor fellows.” 
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