. A history of the earthquake and fire in San Francisco; an account of the disaster of April 18, 1906 and its immediate results. l-l 3 ■4->CJ 3u •4-» CO 4> OS O X5 Z OS o. U J! en o e Q /C W c « THE EARTHQUAKE this filled soil that the Valencia Street Hotel stood,as well as the leaning houses on Howard the earthquake shook things up the whole fillsettled a little more compactly and slid a few feetalong the course of the creek. Sidewalks and pave-ments and car-tracks were twisted; houses reeledfrom their foundations; water pipes (one of themforty-four inches in diameter) w
. A history of the earthquake and fire in San Francisco; an account of the disaster of April 18, 1906 and its immediate results. l-l 3 ■4->CJ 3u •4-» CO 4> OS O X5 Z OS o. U J! en o e Q /C W c « THE EARTHQUAKE this filled soil that the Valencia Street Hotel stood,as well as the leaning houses on Howard the earthquake shook things up the whole fillsettled a little more compactly and slid a few feetalong the course of the creek. Sidewalks and pave-ments and car-tracks were twisted; houses reeledfrom their foundations; water pipes (one of themforty-four inches in diameter) were torn foundations at the edge of the fill crackedacross and sagged; the side walls of the YouthsDirectory, a four-story brick building, resting onground which moved unequally, split from its baseclear to its cornice. Fully as interesting as the row of houses onHoward street were those on Van Ness avenue, nearVallejo street, far to the north. Here the wholeside of the gently sloping hill had been brought upto the grade by being filled with sand, and heresome of the most interesting results of the earth-quake were shown. On Van Ness, just above Val-lejo, th
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