. A history of the earthquake and fire in San Francisco; an account of the disaster of April 18, 1906 and its immediate results. ned district. In the whole burned district there were scarcehalf a dozen places which escaped destruction. Ithas already been narrated how the fire was turnedaside from the Mint, the Postoffice and the Ap-praisers Building and how parts of Russian Hilland Telegraph Hill were saved, by the strenuousefforts of a few volunteers who had the assistanceof a little water. The turning aside of the fire at the AppraisersBuilding (at the northwest corner of Sansome andWashingt
. A history of the earthquake and fire in San Francisco; an account of the disaster of April 18, 1906 and its immediate results. ned district. In the whole burned district there were scarcehalf a dozen places which escaped destruction. Ithas already been narrated how the fire was turnedaside from the Mint, the Postoffice and the Ap-praisers Building and how parts of Russian Hilland Telegraph Hill were saved, by the strenuousefforts of a few volunteers who had the assistanceof a little water. The turning aside of the fire at the AppraisersBuilding (at the northwest corner of Sansome andWashington) and at the Montgomery Block (at thesoutheast corner of Montgomery and Washington)saved a block of old structures between Washingtonand Jackson streets from the first days fire; byfurther hard work with a little water in barrels itwas saved from the fire that swept back from thewest on the third day. On the north side of Jacksonstreet, facing this saved block, one building standsalone in a block otherwise destroyed. This struc-ture, the Volkmann Building, had eighteen-footalleys on two sides, and a low brick building on.
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