. A history of the earthquake and fire in San Francisco; an account of the disaster of April 18, 1906 and its immediate results. iciits to (1.) Preliminary report of State Earthquake Investi-gation Commission. (2.) The Scientific Aspect of the California Earth-quake, A. O. Leuschner (U. C.) Pacific Monthly. (3.) Report of Chamber of Commerce on InsuranceSettlements. (4.) The Scientific Side of It. A. G. McAdie (U. Bureau) Sunset Magazine. STATISTICS OF THE FIRE The area of the burned district was 2593 acres, or miles; the area of the district burned over by theChicago fire
. A history of the earthquake and fire in San Francisco; an account of the disaster of April 18, 1906 and its immediate results. iciits to (1.) Preliminary report of State Earthquake Investi-gation Commission. (2.) The Scientific Aspect of the California Earth-quake, A. O. Leuschner (U. C.) Pacific Monthly. (3.) Report of Chamber of Commerce on InsuranceSettlements. (4.) The Scientific Side of It. A. G. McAdie (U. Bureau) Sunset Magazine. STATISTICS OF THE FIRE The area of the burned district was 2593 acres, or miles; the area of the district burned over by theChicago fire was 2124 acres, or about 3 1-3 square Baltimore fire of February 7th and 8th, 1904, burnedover 140 acres, or less than ^ of a square mile. The Chicago fire burned 17,450 buildings; the SanFrancisco fire, about 25,000. The property loss in the Chicago fire was $196,000,000,with insurance amounting to $88,, of which about ce/\fT£a. APPENDIX 279 half was recovered. The loss in the San Francisco fireis estimated by the Chamber of Commerce at $350,000,000,and the insurance at $235,000,000; it is calculated that will equal about 80% of the total amount. As a result of the Chicago fire forty-six insurance com-panies, of 255 that had risks in that city, failed; of the106 that had risks in San Francisco, five have gone into thehands of receivers. CONCLUSIONS AS TO BUILDING METHODS. The lessons to be learned from the earthquake aresimple but significant. There is nothing new in them;the earthquake merely emphasized certain matters thathad been somewhat overlooked. Bearing in mind thefact that it is only in buildmgs on made land that unusualprecautions are required and that in other cases buildingsconforming to the standard of good building elsewhereare safe, they may be summarized as follows: Founda-tions should be made of ample strength, and should as faras possible be in one piece, rather than in separate p
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