. A history of the earthquake and fire in San Francisco; an account of the disaster of April 18, 1906 and its immediate results. wrecks. The dainty arched gate-ways at the entrance of the Campus spread them-selves out f^at on the ground. The original build-ings, erected in i8gi, were practically unharmed —all but the museum, part of which was destroyed. In Oakland, Alameda, and Berkeley, across thebay from San Francisco, the damage was compara-tively slight. Some chimneys fell; some buildingsin Oakland were damaged by the tumbling away ofpart of their walls; a church lost a large part ofits bo
. A history of the earthquake and fire in San Francisco; an account of the disaster of April 18, 1906 and its immediate results. wrecks. The dainty arched gate-ways at the entrance of the Campus spread them-selves out f^at on the ground. The original build-ings, erected in i8gi, were practically unharmed —all but the museum, part of which was destroyed. In Oakland, Alameda, and Berkeley, across thebay from San Francisco, the damage was compara-tively slight. Some chimneys fell; some buildingsin Oakland were damaged by the tumbling away ofpart of their walls; a church lost a large part ofits box-like tower; a little theatre collapsed, killingfive people; some old, ramshackle buildings tele-scoped. Here, again, it was the old story of decrep-itude or poor construction. Other cities equally near the fault line sufferedvery little. Petaluma and San Rafael, while muchnearer the fault line than Santa Rosa, experienceda much less severe shaking. Santa Cruz, at the samedistance from the line as Salinas, suffered very slightinjury. It would seem that the comparative im-munity of these cities was due to their being on. m THE FAULT LINE rocky ground, while the places more severely dam-aged were on the looser soil of the valleys. San Francisco was partly on sand and partly onrock; various degrees of damage resulted. Of it-self the earthquake did not do much damage there;it was in its indirect results that it was so it snapped every pipe bringing water into thecity, and started fires everywhere. IV THE FIRST DAY OF THE FIRE Even while the people were yet looking at thestrangely swaying houses and the serene sky, it wasdiscovered that fires were starting everywherethroughout the city. Every district, nearly everyneighborhood, had its blaze — some of them causedby falling and uninsulated electric wires, othersoriginating in broken flues, and stoves upset in res-taurant and hotel kitchens and flimsy is known that there were fifty-two originalfires on t
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