. A history of the earthquake and fire in San Francisco; an account of the disaster of April 18, 1906 and its immediate results. ertywere even heavier. In San Jose the damage by the earthquake wasnot as general as at Santa Rosa, although a numberof important buildings were severely damaged. Insome places structures careened sidewise, and inothers parts of brick and stone walls fell. The Hallof Records, a beautiful and impressive granite-walled structure, was bulged out on all sides so thatthe walls had to be rebuilt. At Agnews, a fewmiles from San Jose, a great deal of damage wasdone at the St
. A history of the earthquake and fire in San Francisco; an account of the disaster of April 18, 1906 and its immediate results. ertywere even heavier. In San Jose the damage by the earthquake wasnot as general as at Santa Rosa, although a numberof important buildings were severely damaged. Insome places structures careened sidewise, and inothers parts of brick and stone walls fell. The Hallof Records, a beautiful and impressive granite-walled structure, was bulged out on all sides so thatthe walls had to be rebuilt. At Agnews, a fewmiles from San Jose, a great deal of damage wasdone at the State Insane Asylum. The center partof the main building — a five-story brick structureof poor design and poorer construction — fell; ahundred of the attendants and patients were killed. Serious damage was also done at Stanford Uni-versity. The buildings were of a peculiar and verypleasing design, patterned somewhat after the styleof the Missions. For the most part they were ofone story, with a wide colonnade. The material ingeneral was brick, with sandstone facing Some ofthe buildings were of two and even three stories;. THE FAULT LINE tHefe w^s a. beautiful memorial chapel, with a tallspire, and also a splendid memorial arch, of rathertop-heavy design. The arch was far from strong inconstruction, the upper portion consisting of a mereempty box, without cross walls, and almost withoutbracing. The earthquake threw down the heavy boxat the top, and cracked the sides of the arch badly,splitting off one of the corners. The heavy spire ofthe chapel dropped through the roof; the elaboratelyornamented gable ends fell out. The library andthe gymnasium, newest of Stanfords buildings, be-came shapeless wrecks. The dainty arched gate-ways at the entrance of the Campus spread them-selves out f^at on the ground. The original build-ings, erected in i8gi, were practically unharmed —all but the museum, part of which was destroyed. In Oakland, Alameda, and Berkeley, across thebay from
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