. A history of the earthquake and fire in San Francisco; an account of the disaster of April 18, 1906 and its immediate results. f Mission Inlet. TheYouths Directory, the Valencia Street Hotel, themuch-pictured houses on Howard street, the brokensidewalk on Capp street, and the cracked pavementof Eighteenth street, are all in this area. The one other place in San Francisco where theearthquake resulted in a general movement of housesand streets was at Vallejo street and Van Ness ave-nue, and here too, a fill was to blame; for in earlydays loose earth had been thrown in to fill in thecourse of a
. A history of the earthquake and fire in San Francisco; an account of the disaster of April 18, 1906 and its immediate results. f Mission Inlet. TheYouths Directory, the Valencia Street Hotel, themuch-pictured houses on Howard street, the brokensidewalk on Capp street, and the cracked pavementof Eighteenth street, are all in this area. The one other place in San Francisco where theearthquake resulted in a general movement of housesand streets was at Vallejo street and Van Ness ave-nue, and here too, a fill was to blame; for in earlydays loose earth had been thrown in to fill in thecourse of a creek that ran in a deep ravine towardthe Presidio. Here, however, the buildings wereof a better class, and, while more or less tilted, heldtogether and were but little damaged. It was only on these filled areas that damageto streets, or to houses generally, resulted. In otherparts of the city only isolated buildings were injured—usually for more or less obvious reasons. As nine-tenths of San Francisco is built on thesolid ground of its many hills, and only slight dam-age was suffered there, it will be seen that the few. Earthquake Waves Near Foot of Ninth Street J(M» THE DAMAGE BY THE EARTHQUAKE special cases where local conditions resulted in se-vere damage have made the earthquake seem muchmore terrible than it was in reality. If the filled-in regions had been properly filled—if the houses on them had been properly built—the damage done to San Francisco by the earthquakewould have been slight indeed. It was unreasonableto expect such loosely filled land to hold up undera severe shaking. Now that it has been solidifiedit is not at all likely that a similar earthquake woulddo any serious damage. Closely related to the question of subsidencethroughout a district is that of the failure of thefoundations of individual buildings. This, however,was mainly the result of poor designing and poorconstruction. Many old wooden buildings had beenbuilt on wooden foundations which h
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