Identifier: sanfranciscoshor00wils (find matches)
Title: San Francisco's horror of earthquake and fire ... to which is added graphic accounts of the eruptions of Vesuvius and many other volcanoes, explaining the causes of volcanic eruptions and earthquakes, comp. from stories told by eye witnesses of these frightful scenes
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Wilson, James Russel. (from old catalog)
Subjects: San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906 Volcanoes. (from old catalog)
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., National publishing co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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st forth. The tall and slender structure, which had withstood the forces of theearth, appeared doomed to fall before the fire. But after a time the lightgrew less intense, and the flames, finding nothing to consume, died out,leaving the building standing, but completely gutted. The fifteenth floor was devoted to a restaurant, the sixteenth andseventeenth occupied by the Denver Club. WOMEN WEEP AT FLAMES. Women wrung their hands and wept, crying, It is so terrible.The position of the operator at the Ferry Building was one of extremeperil, and any message was likely to be the last. There was no chance toverify any story brought in. All that could be said with certainty was thatthe fire was still awful in its ravages and appalling in the extent of theterritory covered, this reaching from the water front to Eighth Street, in astrip varying from four to twelve blocks, with scattered fires in the Mission,a section remote from the centre of the ravages. «8 AWFUL HAVOC BY EARTHQUAKE AND FIRE
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SANTA CLARA SAN JOSt MAP OF SAX FKAXCISCO AND VICINITY.The towns named suffered great loss from etTecte. of the earthuuake. AWFUL HAVOC BY EARTHQUAKE AND FIRE 39 Several looters were shot by the soldiers who were patrolling thestreets. General Funston issued orders to this effect, and four men caughtstealing- were summarily shot. The greatest destruction occurred in that part of the city which wasreclaimed from San Francisco Bay. Much of the devastated district wasat one time low marshy ground, covered by water at high tide. As thecity grew it became necessary to fill in many acres of this low ground inorder to reach ilcep water. The Alerchants ICxchange Building, a fourteen-story steel structure, was situated on the edge of this reclaimed ground. Ithad just been completed, and the executive offices of the Southern PacificCompany occupied the greater part of the building. RESIDENCE SECTION DOOMED. The damage by the earthquake to the residence portion of the city,the finest part of whi

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