. A history of the earthquake and fire in San Francisco; an account of the disaster of April 18, 1906 and its immediate results. at deal of saltwater was used throughout the entire burning ofthe city. In addition, a few hydrants here and there A STUDY OF THE FIRE 225 continued to supply water from the reservoirs with-in the city, and in the lowlying districts much waterwas taken from sewers. So long as the fire was nottoo far to be reached by hose lines from the bay, itwas impossible that the water supply should run the cisterns and the bay water could beused, the fire was for a time
. A history of the earthquake and fire in San Francisco; an account of the disaster of April 18, 1906 and its immediate results. at deal of saltwater was used throughout the entire burning ofthe city. In addition, a few hydrants here and there A STUDY OF THE FIRE 225 continued to supply water from the reservoirs with-in the city, and in the lowlying districts much waterwas taken from sewers. So long as the fire was nottoo far to be reached by hose lines from the bay, itwas impossible that the water supply should run the cisterns and the bay water could beused, the fire was for a time stopped or turned there had been more cisterns, much more effectivework could have been done. There were in the citytwenty cisterns which could be used during the years past there had been more; they had beenkept filled, and had been of much service. Gradu-ally, however, they came to be neglected; somecracked and were not repaired; some were filled withearth by corporations eager to run pipes or conduitsthrough them. Similar indifference and shortsight-edness left the wholesale district without protection. Photo by Aitken Column Protection in Wells Fargo Building 22u A STUDY OF THE FIRE which il might well have had. If the city hadmade the mechanical arrangements necessary forthe use of the pumping plant which a cold storagecompany had offered to turn over to the Fire De-partment whenever a fire in the district occurred, itis almost certain that the fires north of Market streetcvouid have been subdued at the start. As to the general handling of the fire, it hasalready been shown how it might have been differentif the Chief of the Fire Department had not beenstricken down in the first hour of the emergency, ifthe department had not been split up into such aninfinity of small squads combating separate fires,if a full supply of water had remained in the pipes,and if such complete demoralization of everythinggeneric in the citys affairs had not followed theearthqu
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