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Title: A history of the earthquake and fire in San Francisco; an account of the disaster of April 18, 1906 and its immediate results
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Aitken, Frank W Hilton, Edward
Subjects: Earthquakes -- California San Francisco
Publisher: San Francisco, The E. Hilton Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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much to work with—just a littlewater stored in bathtubs and pails; just a little wetsand thrown on a smoking roof, or a mop laid onan igniting window-sill; just a sizzling stream ofsoda water from a syphon; just a bottle of wineconverted into a hand grenade. In their desperatestrait they used anything. Once a boy threw mudfrom the street at a flame and smothered it. Againa sack of flour was scattered over the burning por-tion of a roof. Men hastily nailed cleats onto roofsthat they might climb gables with greater ease andsafety. With this precarious footing they workedon, heedless of danger, intent only on saving theirhomes. Unerring of foot they climbed to pinnaclesthat yesterday they would have trembled to think of.It was a time for the testing of mens strength.Vacant lots, houses set down in the midst of gar-dens, and men who worked like maniacs, were thesalvation of many of the elegant homes on the hill.Many were saved, too, only to burn on the followingday. WE<5TER1MADDITION
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J Map Showing Fires at End of Second Day 131 THE CONQUEST With inconceivable rapidity the fire sped downthe eastern slope of Russian Hill and into the close-built valley between there and Telegraph Hill,racing most rapidly eastward along Washingtonstreet and spreading northward, also, as it hurriedalong. The little wisp of flame had become a roar-ing conflagration that crossed Vallejo street (fourblocks north of Washington) five blocks abreast.By sunrise Friday morning it was working up thesteep slope of Telegraph Hill on one side, andback upon Russian Hill on the other, while inbetween it tore its way through the North Beachdistrict toward the bay. The Italian settlement was on Telegraph Hill;Broadway, at the base of the southern slope, bristledwith the unpronounceable names of restaurants andwine shops and hotels. It was quite as famous inits way as Chinatown, and no visitor to the city hadcompleted his rounds until he had been to dinner atone of its many restaurants. On Montgomery

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