. A history of the earthquake and fire in San Francisco; an account of the disaster of April 18, 1906 and its immediate results. Photo by A it ken Entrance to the Huntington Mansion A STUDY OF THE FIRE 217 is more easily put out with water than a pine the danger of a great conflagration, as completein its destruction as that in May, 1851—if one shouldstart during a heavy wind, for instance,—was alwayspresent. Gradually the fear of earthquakes died out. In1892 the slender Chronicle Building, of twelvestories including its tower, was built around a steeland iron frame. Temblors continue
. A history of the earthquake and fire in San Francisco; an account of the disaster of April 18, 1906 and its immediate results. Photo by A it ken Entrance to the Huntington Mansion A STUDY OF THE FIRE 217 is more easily put out with water than a pine the danger of a great conflagration, as completein its destruction as that in May, 1851—if one shouldstart during a heavy wind, for instance,—was alwayspresent. Gradually the fear of earthquakes died out. In1892 the slender Chronicle Building, of twelvestories including its tower, was built around a steeland iron frame. Temblors continued to come, butafter each it stood unharmed. Other tall buildingswere erected. Finally the Call Building was con-structed—a narrow, tower-like structure of eighteenstories (counting those in the dome) reaching aheight of over three hundred feet. In recent yearsa great deal of the most modern type and style ofconstruction had been done; the youngest of thegreat cities had already begun to replace its oldbuildings with new. In ten years more the businessdistrict would have been practically rebuilt. In the. Photo by Uciiiner On the Edge of the Burned District JI6 A STUDY OF THE FIRE early part of 1906 but two per cent, of the citysbuildings were fireproof. When the disaster of April18. 1906. came it found much of the old city await-ing it. A search for the actual causes of the starting ofthe many fires that arose after the earthquake takesus back to the underlying facts of filled land andpoor construction. Those, we have seen, were themain causes of the throwing down of both brick andframe structures by the temblor. And among thefires that at once arose the fiercest were those thatstarted in the fallen hotels and collapsed shackssouth of Market, and those that sprang up on thefilled land near the ferry. Fallen electric wires hada part in some of the fires; but in parts of the citywhere houses were not shaken down they did littledamage. Whatever the real cause of the outbreak
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