. A history of the earthquake and fire in San Francisco; an account of the disaster of April 18, 1906 and its immediate results. n Ness, just above Val-lejo, the street lengthened out. The cement squaresof the pavement, separating, tilted slightly on theshifting sand beneath, and, twisting about with theshock, arranged themeslves fantastically en bituminous pavement, on its concrete base,split from curb to curb in several places, and, slidingdown the hill, produced alarming fissures, in someplaces, and in another a ridge of jammed-up ends ofbitumen, a foot in height. Houses and fen
. A history of the earthquake and fire in San Francisco; an account of the disaster of April 18, 1906 and its immediate results. n Ness, just above Val-lejo, the street lengthened out. The cement squaresof the pavement, separating, tilted slightly on theshifting sand beneath, and, twisting about with theshock, arranged themeslves fantastically en bituminous pavement, on its concrete base,split from curb to curb in several places, and, slidingdown the hill, produced alarming fissures, in someplaces, and in another a ridge of jammed-up ends ofbitumen, a foot in height. Houses and fences andbackyards on the hillside moved down the hill;strange curves appeared in the retaining walls alongVallejo street. But while the effect of the earth-quake here was startling, the amount of actual dis- THE EARTHQUAKE 29 placement was small, four feet, with a drop of abouttwo feet in Vallejo street. On Union street, nearPierce, however; the car track was shoved some sixfeet to the side and dropped almost as much. Thesidewalk, indeed, dropped several feet. The streetthere, however, was merely a fill on a side hill; when. Phutus by .-litken St. Dominics Church 30 THE EARTHQUAKE the earthquake came, it sHd down into an adjoiningtruck garden. Lower Market street, and the other streets onmade land near the waterfront, sank noticeably,though without such picturesque results. Some oldbuildings tilted and twisted and leaned queerly andlost much of their brickwork, and in some casesroof-trusses unseated themselves. These were some of the things seen by thecrowds who wandered about the streets after thetemblor. No one, individually, saw very much ofthe damage, for soon the people looked at the was curling heavenward in many places —lazily, with all the assumption of a fiend sure of itspower. Ill THE FAULT LINE We do not have to go far afield to find whatsort of thing this earthquake was which thus shookSan Francisco. Probably never before has an earth-quake occurred which
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