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 tothe Far East, the Islands of the Southern Seas, the Frozen Northland andthe Sunny Ports of our Sister Continent
By A. M. Allison
he historians of modern or ancient times have never recorded such amaelstrom of terrified, horror and panic-stricken human beings as awoke tothe realization of the master seismic tremblor, in the City of SanFrancisco at 5:13 on the morning of April 18th, 1906. The initial quake,being followed by many of less severity, tumbled chimneys, large and smallbuildings o