. A history of the earthquake and fire in San Francisco; an account of the disaster of April 18, 1906 and its immediate results. Fire South of Market Street Photos by Estcy (.S THE FIRST DAY OF THE FIRE growing slower as they reached brick buildings ofa more solid sort. Wherever brick buildings stoodside by side only one at a time burned. Each waitedits turn, offering but a slight check to the onsweepof the flames at the side walls, but soon igniting,and finally passing the fire on to the next in frame buildings were interspersed with thebrick, and their burning was very rapid. Gradu
. A history of the earthquake and fire in San Francisco; an account of the disaster of April 18, 1906 and its immediate results. Fire South of Market Street Photos by Estcy (.S THE FIRST DAY OF THE FIRE growing slower as they reached brick buildings ofa more solid sort. Wherever brick buildings stoodside by side only one at a time burned. Each waitedits turn, offering but a slight check to the onsweepof the flames at the side walls, but soon igniting,and finally passing the fire on to the next in frame buildings were interspersed with thebrick, and their burning was very rapid. Gradually Market street west to Sansome be-came the point of juncture of two immense , other great fires came down the south sideof Market street to meet them. The Palace Hotel,world-famous, stood between. Early in the morning a fire at the power sta-tion on Stevenson street, in the shadow of the CallBuilding, and but a short distance beyond the Pal-ace, had eaten its way toward Fourth, then on eitherside to Mission and to Market, following the line ofleast resistance — the line of flimsy, wooden con-struction. As
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