. A history of the earthquake and fire in San Francisco; an account of the disaster of April 18, 1906 and its immediate results. of Records,the Hall of Justice had burned, and the County Jail,from which the prisoners had been removed to themilitary prison on Alcatraz Island. The Police De-partment had lost heavily. In the first hours of thefire the Southern Station, located on Clara nearFourth, was destroyed, entailing a loss of $42, the second day the Harbor Station went. TheMission Station had been so badly damaged by theearthquake as to be counted worthless. Of thethings that could be
. A history of the earthquake and fire in San Francisco; an account of the disaster of April 18, 1906 and its immediate results. of Records,the Hall of Justice had burned, and the County Jail,from which the prisoners had been removed to themilitary prison on Alcatraz Island. The Police De-partment had lost heavily. In the first hours of thefire the Southern Station, located on Clara nearFourth, was destroyed, entailing a loss of $42, the second day the Harbor Station went. TheMission Station had been so badly damaged by theearthquake as to be counted worthless. Of thethings that could be replaced by an expenditure ofmoney there had been a loss to the police amountingto $232,195. But over and above this was the lossof records (among which the Rogues Gallery wasan important factor) that had cost $200,000 to com-pile, but whose real value to the department wasbeyond a monetary appraisement. The Fire Department lost thirteen enginehouses and one water-tower house — among thesaddest depredations of the fire, for it occurred whilethe men of the department were doing their best tosave the property of others. I. 3O c/a 0)■*-> Bo Ou o C C ^ v 1) • 1-4 1.^0 TIIR WORK OF THE FIRE Of the public schools thirty-four had been de-stroyed, with a loss to buildings and equipment of$1,532,570. Not included in this estimate is theGirls High School. Though beyond the zone ofthe fire, it was so badly wrecked by the earthquakeas to be entirely untenantable. Every commercial and professional interest hadsuffered, some almost to the point of loss in supplies, stocks, buildings, machinery,office equipment, houses and household effects wasenormous. The business district was a maze ofgaunt brick walls and tangled iron. In the residencedistricts which had felt the blight of the fire, therewas nothing but chimneys, and a worthless wreck-age of bath-tubs, melted crockery, and flatlrons,with the occasional frame of a sewing machine. Socomplete had the work of the fire
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