. A history of the earthquake and fire in San Francisco; an account of the disaster of April 18, 1906 and its immediate results. Interior of Sloane Building Photo by Aitkcn A STUDY OF THE FIRE 241 dragged down by the falling of the interiors, sothat many structures which before the fire hadboasted five, six, or seven stories, rose hardly morethan as many feet afterward, or disappeared com-pletely in their own basements. Buildings with concrete floors stood up muchbetter, and generally retained their integrity; andthe structures of modern steel frame construction,carefully fire-proofed, also es
. A history of the earthquake and fire in San Francisco; an account of the disaster of April 18, 1906 and its immediate results. Interior of Sloane Building Photo by Aitkcn A STUDY OF THE FIRE 241 dragged down by the falling of the interiors, sothat many structures which before the fire hadboasted five, six, or seven stories, rose hardly morethan as many feet afterward, or disappeared com-pletely in their own basements. Buildings with concrete floors stood up muchbetter, and generally retained their integrity; andthe structures of modern steel frame construction,carefully fire-proofed, also escaped destruction,although severely damaged. The whole finish ineach was destroyed, including all marble, tiling, andplaster. Other portions suffered in varying degrees;some buildings almost had to be rebuilt, nothing butthe steel frames and concrete floors being intact;others needed only slight repairs. The effect of the fire on these classes of build-ings will be best seen in connection with the studyof the various building materials. It is interesting. Parrott Building PJioto by Ait ken 2A2 A STUDY OF THE FIRE to consider these somewhat in the order in whichthey are exposed to the influence of a fire attackingthem from without,—the fire test to which theywere subjected in the conflagration. The buildings of San Francisco had practicallyno protection by wired glass or fire-proof the wholesale district iron shutters (hinged atthe sides) were commonly used to protect doorsand windows, but did not prove at all effective inpreventing the entrance of the flames. In the finerbuildings, however—the fire-proof sky-scrapers—there was no such protection of any kind; except-ing one structure with metal-sheathed windowframes, all had ordinary windows which affordedno barrier at all against the fire. For this reasonthe fire had no difficulty in traveling from onebuilding to another. In all alike—even the fire-proof buildings—a little flame from without soonset fire t
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