I put my revolver back into my pocket, and
then I thanked the soldier. He said: 'Don't mention it. Them Chinks
would steal the money off a dead man's eyes.'"
They say that Rossi, though almost in tears, was heard trying his voice
at a corner near the Palace Hotel.
TEDDY'S PICTURE PROVES "OPEN SESAME."
"I went to Lafayette Square and slept on the grass. When I tried to get
into the square the soldiers pushed me back. I pleaded with them, but
they would not listen. I had under my arm a large photograph of Theodore
Roosevelt, upon which was written: 'With kindest regards from Theodore
Roosevelt.' I showed them this, and one of them said: 'If you are a
friend of Teddy, come in and make yourself at home.'
"I put my trunks in the cellar of the Hotel St. Francis and thought they
would be safe. The hotel caught fire, and my trunks were all burned up.
To think I took so much trouble to save them!"
In spite of the news of all the woe and suffering which we hear, it is
cheering to learn also of the many thousands of heroic deeds by brave
men during the terrible scenes enacted through the four days passing
since the eventful morning when the earth began to demolish splendid
buildings of business and residence and fire sprang up to complete the
city's destruction. The Mayor and his forces of police, the troops
under command of General Funston, volunteer aids to all these, and the
husbands of terrified wives, and the sons, brothers and other relatives
who toiled for many consecutive hours through smoke and falling walls
and an inferno of flames and explosions and traps of danger of all
kinds, often without food or water--toiling as men never toiled before
to save life and relieve distress of all kinds--all these were examples
of heroism and devotion to duty seldom witnessed in any scenes of terror
in all time.
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