قراءة كتاب San Francisco in Ruins A Pictorial History of Eight Score Photo-Views of the Earthquake Effects, Flames' Havoc, Ruins Everywhere, Relief Camps

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San Francisco in Ruins A Pictorial History of Eight Score Photo-Views of the Earthquake Effects, Flames' Havoc, Ruins Everywhere, Relief Camps

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SAN FRANCISCO
IN RUINS

A PICTORIAL HISTORY OF
EIGHT SCORE PHOTO-VIEWS
of the
EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS
FLAMES’ HAVOC
RUINS EVERYWHERE
RELIEF CAMPS

THE PHOTOGRAPHS BY J. D. GIVENS, PRESIDIO, SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.
Copyright, 1906, by A. M. Allison and J. D. Givens

ENGRAVINGS AND PRINTING BY THE SMITH-BROOKS COMPANY
DENVER, COLO.

1.	Brig. Gen. Frederick Funston, commanding Department of California.
2.	Col. Wm. A. Simpson, military secretary.
3.	Lieut. Col. George M. Dunn, judge advocate.
4.	Col. John L. Clem, chief quartermaster.
5.	Col. Edw. E. Dravo, chief commissary.
6.	Col. Chas. L. Heizmann, chief surgeon.
7.	Capt. Frederick R. Day, paymaster.
8.	Capt. A. P. Buffington, paymaster.
9.	Capt. Francis G. Irwin, paymaster.
10.	Capt. Leonard D. Wildman, chief signal officer.
11.	Capt. Wm. C. Wren, assistant to chief quartermaster.
12.	Capt. Lawrence B. Simonds, assistant to chief commissary.
13.	First Lieut. Burton J. Mitchell, 12th infantry, aid-de-camp.
14.	First Lieut. Oliver P. M. Hazzard, 2d cavalry, aid-de-camp.
15.	Second Lieut. Samuel E. Patterson, Philippine Scouts.

COMMANDING GENERAL AND STAFF, DEPARTMENT OF CALIFORNIA, U. S. A.,
Headquarters, Presidio, San Francisco, Cal.

THE FINISH OF THE FIRST
EPOCH IN THE HISTORY OF

SAN FRANCISCO

The Queen City of the Pacific Slope, Guardian of the Golden Gateway to the Far East, the Islands of the Southern Seas, the Frozen Northland and the Sunny Ports of our Sister Continent

By A. M. Allison

he historians of modern or ancient times have never recorded such a maelstrom of terrified, horror and panic-stricken human beings as awoke to the realization of the master seismic tremblor, in the City of San Francisco at 5:13 on the morning of April 18th, 1906. The initial quake, being followed by many of less severity, tumbled chimneys, large and small buildings of poor or faulty construction, broke water mains and ruptured electric light and power conductors, causing many conflagrations in a few moments. Then followed a catastrophe unparalleled in modern times, a disaster beside which, for property losses, the Chicago fire, the Johnstown flood, the Galveston tidal wave, the Mont Pelee eruption, Vesuvius’ spoutings and the Baltimore fire, fade into infinitesimal

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