. A history of the earthquake and fire in San Francisco; an account of the disaster of April 18, 1906 and its immediate results. general line ofthe beach, a few miles south of San Francisco. Justbehind it the San Mateo hills end in a sandy bluffrising about five hundred feet above the beach andcontinuing some miles northward. The fault lineextended to and beyond this bluff just north of Mus-sel Rock, and the bluff, like the last billiard ball ina row, received the whole force of the shock withouthaving anything to which to transmit it. As a re-sult, that part near the fault went to pieces com-
. A history of the earthquake and fire in San Francisco; an account of the disaster of April 18, 1906 and its immediate results. general line ofthe beach, a few miles south of San Francisco. Justbehind it the San Mateo hills end in a sandy bluffrising about five hundred feet above the beach andcontinuing some miles northward. The fault lineextended to and beyond this bluff just north of Mus-sel Rock, and the bluff, like the last billiard ball ina row, received the whole force of the shock withouthaving anything to which to transmit it. As a re-sult, that part near the fault went to pieces com-pletely. About a mile to the north of the real lineof the fault the double-track roadbed of the OceanShore Railroad was being graded along the side ofthis bluff; the sand thrown down by the earthquakecompletely obliterated all that had been done, andleft a monster steam shovel buried, upside down,a hundred feet down the slope. This was trivial, however, as compared to thedisturbance on the fault line itself. Here the wholeside of the cliff for half a mile broke away with acrash, and slid down the slope and toward the < S H z u it: - < a 5 n H W Ik O z 52 THK I-AULT LINE When it had slopped, the far-flying outer portionsfrom the base of the cliff had formed a new promon-tory reaching well out in the ocean, and the upperpart was some two hundred feet lower than and contorted it was, to be sure, but in themain the surface had ridden along undisturbed onthe sliding sands below, and bore the same coveringof underbrush as before. A cabbage patch at thetop of the hill was cut in two by the slide; whilepart of it remained on the hilltop, another portionreposed unharmed some three hundred feet belowand the remainder either hung on terraces near thetop or was stretched out on the steep slope ocean soon washed away the new promontory,as it was mainly soft sand; but back from the beacha little valley runs down to the sea where noneexisted before. Nort
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