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 . IIOBAUT First floor. View from tho at tlic front of tlie ))iiilcliii<;. A liot fire in the base-ment caused the excessive deflection of the unprotected njirders, wliich pullccl away from the flimsy column connections,permitting the greater portion of tlic first floor to fall into the liasement. Tlie column protection is of metal lath andplaster in the first stor
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 . IIOBAUT First floor. View from tho at tlic front of tlie ))iiilcliii<;. A liot fire in the base-ment caused the excessive deflection of the unprotected njirders, wliich pullccl away from the flimsy column connections,permitting the greater portion of tlic first floor to fall into the liasement. Tlie column protection is of metal lath andplaster in the first story, and of hollow tile 2 in tluckness in Ihc upper HOBART BUILDIN(i. Fovirth Story. Showing the failure of the hollow tile 3 and 4 partitions, and of thehollow tile protection around the vaults. The column protection was of two-inch hollow tile blocks. The workmanship andmaterial being of a better grade than that of the partitions, in many cases the column protection is but slightly damagedwhere the partitions are completely wrecked around it. 36
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