Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) 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. [Illustration: 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 The 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 disturbances on the records of Father Time.