. A history of the earthquake and fire in San Francisco; an account of the disaster of April 18, 1906 and its immediate results. come or whatit would be, these men undertook to work out thecitys salvation among themselves. There is noother case in history where a stricken city held con-tinuous control of its own affairs. The care of the injured had to be provided for— the country at large appealed to — fire lines es-tablished; later the hungry would have to be fed —the homeless housed — the half-dressed clothed;and all the time the machinery of government mustbe kept moving; organization must
. A history of the earthquake and fire in San Francisco; an account of the disaster of April 18, 1906 and its immediate results. come or whatit would be, these men undertook to work out thecitys salvation among themselves. There is noother case in history where a stricken city held con-tinuous control of its own affairs. The care of the injured had to be provided for— the country at large appealed to — fire lines es-tablished; later the hungry would have to be fed —the homeless housed — the half-dressed clothed;and all the time the machinery of government mustbe kept moving; organization must be brought outof that first chaos, and life made livable, among200,000 helpless people, in a city deprived at a strokeof cars, telephones, light, power, (all the tools andconveniences on which it had come to rely), and offood and water as well — the very means of exist-ence. Apart from the ever-present need of fightingthe fire, the first thought was for the injured. Tem-porary hospitals were established in many the private sanitariums opened their the first doctors and surgeons and nurses. ^0 THE FATEFUL DA^* were racing about the streets in automobiles, bind-ing wounds, dressing burns, and here and there pro-nouncing the dread verdict to those who sat by. The Harbor Emergency Hospital on the water-front (long a factor in the citys care of the victimsof accidents and broils) was filled from the first. Theinjured and sick and dying were taken there in largenumbers from the charnel-house south of the fire was burning hottest all around, theattendants worked away, unmindful of the and patrol wagons hurried the patientsto the hospital, while others waited to remove themshould it become necessary. Patients in the Receiving Hospital in the ruinedCity Hall — miraculously uninjured themselves —were quickly taken to the Mechanics Pavilion,which was at once converted into a hospital. Here,too, were brought scores of tho
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