. A history of the earthquake and fire in San Francisco; an account of the disaster of April 18, 1906 and its immediate results. ne end of the refresh-ment house at the childrens playground—a pictur-esque lodge, of brick covered with sandstone—com-pletely collapsed. At the Girls High School, which cost over$90,000 to build, great quantities of the walls fell,and all around the building cracks zigzagged up anddown the bulging brickwork. THE EARTHQUAKE 25 In the same neighborhood as the Girls HighSchool stood St. Dominics Church — a massivestructure of brick covered with cement. One of itslofty
. A history of the earthquake and fire in San Francisco; an account of the disaster of April 18, 1906 and its immediate results. ne end of the refresh-ment house at the childrens playground—a pictur-esque lodge, of brick covered with sandstone—com-pletely collapsed. At the Girls High School, which cost over$90,000 to build, great quantities of the walls fell,and all around the building cracks zigzagged up anddown the bulging brickwork. THE EARTHQUAKE 25 In the same neighborhood as the Girls HighSchool stood St. Dominics Church — a massivestructure of brick covered with cement. One of itslofty spires was completely stripped of its the companion spire all the brickwork of thetower proper fell away, leaving only the rounded,dome-like top, like a giant toadstool balanced highon its fragile stem. The walls of the churchspread; the roof fell in; great cracks split the struc-ture clear to the foundations. A few other large buildings met the same fate—the Beth Israel Synagogue, the Scottish Rite Tem-ple, and the Knight Templar Asylum, all within afew blocks of St. Dominics. In each case, the story. I ••Ft Photos hy Waters. Dcrlcth. Hccht Tilted Houses 26 THE EARTHQUAKE was the same: much of the walls fell away; the roofdropped; the wreck was complete. A storage warehouse, of four stories nearby pre-sented a unique spectacle. On all sides the wall ofits upper story had fallen, leaving exposed to viewthe varied collection of household goods stored with-in, so that the roof seemed to rest on nothing but theclose-packed goods beneath. Further down town,in the district of hotels and apartment houses, otherbrick structures lost one or more stories from theirfacades in the same way. Apart from the large brick buildings so dam-aged, and the numerous wooden shanties destroyed,the most striking manifestations of the power of theshock were to be found in its effect on the earthitself here and there in various parts of the city. On Valencia street, near Ninete
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