. A history of the earthquake and fire in San Francisco; an account of the disaster of April 18, 1906 and its immediate results. cgBoU o 3. A STUDY OF THE FIRE another: il was of brick, and had wired-glass win-dows with metal sash, except on the front, whichfaced the unburned block. To this fortunate com-bination of circumstances it owes its safety. An almost similar set of circumstances savedthe works of the California Electric Company, onFolsom between Second and Third, which haddriveways at each side and a small street behindit, and was equipped with wired-glass windows andmetal sash. The b
. A history of the earthquake and fire in San Francisco; an account of the disaster of April 18, 1906 and its immediate results. cgBoU o 3. A STUDY OF THE FIRE another: il was of brick, and had wired-glass win-dows with metal sash, except on the front, whichfaced the unburned block. To this fortunate com-bination of circumstances it owes its safety. An almost similar set of circumstances savedthe works of the California Electric Company, onFolsom between Second and Third, which haddriveways at each side and a small street behindit, and was equipped with wired-glass windows andmetal sash. The burned district map shows but two otherunburned spaces—the Atlas Building of tenstories, at Second and Mission, and the Cali-fornia Casket Company Building of sevenstories, on Mission between Fifth and latter was in itself fire-proof — of brickwalls and concrete floors—and was in a neighbor-hood chiefly built up of low frame structures; more-over, it was as yet uncompleted, and containedalmost no combustible material except its windowframes which, indeed, burned. The former, on theother hand, was in a well-built distri
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