. A history of the earthquake and fire in San Francisco; an account of the disaster of April 18, 1906 and its immediate results. Spear, a block away. The street sank IQS THE DAMAGE BY THE EARTHQUAKE some three feet here, but the damage to the buildingwas almost entirely by fire. A similar subsidence occurred in the filled-indistrict that had been Mission Bay and its surround-ing marsh, and which had been brought up to thegrade with sand loosely thrown in. Mission street,near the Postoffice (at the corner of Seventh), sankthree and one-half feet. The same disturbance can be traced diagonallythr
. A history of the earthquake and fire in San Francisco; an account of the disaster of April 18, 1906 and its immediate results. Spear, a block away. The street sank IQS THE DAMAGE BY THE EARTHQUAKE some three feet here, but the damage to the buildingwas almost entirely by fire. A similar subsidence occurred in the filled-indistrict that had been Mission Bay and its surround-ing marsh, and which had been brought up to thegrade with sand loosely thrown in. Mission street,near the Postoffice (at the corner of Seventh), sankthree and one-half feet. The same disturbance can be traced diagonallythrough the nearby blocks—at Sixth and Howard,and at Fifth and Folsom, and at Fourth and Harri-son—along the edge of the old Through here were the most striking cases ofthe complete wrecking of flimsy frame houses, whichtottered on their crazy foundations and structures—frame or other—held to-gether even when the soft loose soil moved andtwisted and formed itself permanently into earth-quake waves. A third disturbed region was in the neighbor-hood of the Valencia Street Hotel. From about. Photo by Derleth Subsidence of Streets at Market and Spear THE DAMAGE BY THE EARTHQUAKE 199 Nineteenth and Guerrero to Seventeenth and How-ard the steep-sided ravine in which Willow Creekran had been filled with loose earth; further alongwas the marsh about the head of Mission Inlet. TheYouths Directory, the Valencia Street Hotel, themuch-pictured houses on Howard street, the brokensidewalk on Capp street, and the cracked pavementof Eighteenth street, are all in this area. The one other place in San Francisco where theearthquake resulted in a general movement of housesand streets was at Vallejo street and Van Ness ave-nue, and here too, a fill was to blame; for in earlydays loose earth had been thrown in to fill in thecourse of a creek that ran in a deep ravine towardthe Presidio. Here, however, the buildings wereof a better class, and, while more or less ti
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