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The San Francisco earthquake and fire; a brief history of the disaster; a presentation of facts and resulting phenomena, with special reference to the efficiency of building materials, lessons of the disaster . SCO =ft E 6 g-= o £ .2 -« o beb£.S V en ^ ^. -^ o S £ . ^; o. 111- 5 ^^ B 3• o •-? ?^ S ^o >-- -ti WQ :^ O b£=« 2 a 156. 1) 6E_>v0^ .5 -^ -^ e^ ?R J3 P .a^ -S . S o -S ^ ^ o S ? -^ O-f- :t ry: ^ ^ be 3 ci Qj -o b£ ,r: -c ^ 2-2 C r^ o +: P:2 ^ . ^ ^ op -5 - J 0O ^ Ih C .^^ -1-1 >. ^ j=. E0 — bl 5 5^ ?=: = 157 window lintols at the front of the building throughout are un-protected, the wood frames being built in contact with wire lath and plaster partition around the stairway wasnot properly anchored to the steel framing, and is badly saggedand cracked at every story under the stair strings. There wasno fire in the basement, and the power plant is but slightlydamaged. Comments: Although this building was subjected to a moderate fire only,the large number of colunm failures are no doubt due to theflimsy furring that was used to support the wire lath and plasterprotection around them. In several cases where the wire lathand plaster had been broken down by the buckling of the col-umns it was noted that there were only two Y^ rod supportsfor the wire, in a story height, and these suppo
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