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 . i-^. TPS- .^ -tr MONADNOCK BUILDING. First Floor. Showing the effect of dynamiting. One complete bay was entirelydisrupted, the steel connections of the beams and girders being broken, allowing the mass to fall into the basement and wreckingthe expanded metal lath and plaster ceiling of the floor directly above it. 301

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