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Howard's building, on Battery Street, between 

 Clay and CommercialStreets. The roof of this build- 

 ing was recently raised, and a third story built on : 

 the cornice and portions of the fire wall nave fallen 

 and demolished the wooden awning and lower cor- 

 nice. 



New Orleans Warehouse, California and Davis 

 Streets. The fire wall on California Street demol- 

 ished. 



Hooker & Co. , California Street. The east fire wall 

 on their building demolished. 



Thurnauer & Zinn. The building occupied by them 

 badly cracked on Sacramento Street. 



At McDonald's mill, on Market Street below Front, 

 the ground sunk in the rear, letting down the wall 

 some eight feet, and opened. 



At the northwest corner of Mission and Third 

 Streets, the top line of the wall came down. 



At the corner of Fourth and Harrison the ground 

 sunk and raised about one foot and a half, stopping 

 the cars. 



The building on the southwest corner of Kearney 

 Street and St. Mark's Place'is badly cracked. 



A. M. Boyle's drug-store, on "Washington Street, 

 near Sansome, was injured to the extent of $2,500. 



The chimney of the Mint is in great danger of fall- 

 ing, as also is the granite front of Blake's hat-store, 

 on Montgomery Street. 



The rear of the old Alto, office, on Sacramento Street, 

 is badly cracked. 



The rear of the clothing-store of Gr. Broderick, on 

 Sacramento Street, near Montgomery, was entirely 

 crushed in by the adjoining walls falling. Nobody 

 hurt. It was a one-story frame building. 



The fire-wall of the Pacific Mail Steamship Com- 

 pany' s office was thrown down. 



The front walls of the stores of A. J. Platt, No. 510, 

 and Wigmore, No. 512 Sacramento Street, sank about 

 six inches. The floor of the cellar raised up two feet. 

 A crack extended along the street about one hundred 

 feet. 



The walls between the Coso House and adjoining 

 building were separated at the top five or six inches. 



The fire-wall of Howard's building, Sansome and 

 Clay the entire Sansome Street front fell into the 

 Btreet. Blumenthal, the proprietor of the restaurant 

 in the building, was badly hurt. 



A fire-wall ^on the west side of Leidesdorff Street 

 fell on the adjoining frame building. 



The Kailroad House, fronting on Commercial Street, 

 below Battery, and running north to Clay, is a four- 

 story brick, filled with lodgers, many of whom rushed 

 6ut without clothing. The northern half of the build- 

 ing settled from one to two feet, breaking the build- 

 ing in two. The walls of the top are divided at least 

 a foot. Nobody was hurt. The Clay Street front 

 lower story is occupied by S. P. Taylor & Co., paper- 

 dealers. The front of their store is a complete wreck. 

 One of the cast-iron pillars sunk about five feet. 



The tobacco-store of A. S. Eosenbaum & Co., ad- 

 joining Taylor & Co.'s on the east, is almost as bad 

 a wreck as the latter establishment. The two build- 

 ings, having settled in toward each other, support one 

 another, which is all that prevents them from falling. 



The heavy fire-wall of J. D. Farwell & Co., Clay 

 Street, above Front, fell. Also that of Coghill & Co., 

 Front and Commercial Streets. 



The fire-wall of L. Downing & Son, wagon and car- 

 riage dealers, at Battery and Merchant Streets, fell, 

 crushing a wagon in front. 



The store of Lowe Brothers, at Sacramento and 

 Battery Streets, badly cracked ; walls incline in and 

 have sunk several inches. 



The roof of C. P. Eank & Co.'s hosiery-store, on 

 Sacramento Street, below Battery, was crushed in. 



The roof of the woollen store adjoining on the west 

 is in the same condition. 



The walls of several stores on the north side of 

 Sacramento Street, below Battery, incline inward at 

 the top several inches. 



The walls of Dorrance's new store, No. 305 Battery 

 Street, are badly cracked at the top. 



The front wall of H. Brandt's store, No. 304 Bat- 

 tery Street, is badly cracked and in a dangerous con- 

 dition. 



Coffee & Eisdon's foundery has fallen, and several 

 men are buried in the ruins. 



At the Mechanics' and Brokaw's Mills the roof 

 fell in and made a perfect wreck. No lives were 

 lost. 



Booth's foundery, corner Mission and First Streets, 

 and the moulding-shop, were badly damaged, the 

 chimney torn down ana wall bulged out. 



The fire-wall at the top of Sam Brannan's build- 

 ing fell and broke througn the side- walk. Nobody 

 hurt. 



At Trainer's block, on the corner of Kearney and 

 Sutter Streets, the top of the building fell off and broke 

 down the awning. 



At No. 20 Kearney Street the building cracked at 

 both ends. 



The chimneys^roin the Nucleus building fell upon 

 the roof of the dining-room, smashed through and fell 

 between two tables while people were breakfasting at 

 them. The front wall of the dining-room is badly 

 cracked to the top. 



Mrs. Chamberlain's house on Third Street sustained 

 much injury, large plates of glass being broken from 

 the stores beneath. 



What Cheer House, portion of the southwest corner 

 of Leidesdorff and Sacramento Streets, wall badly 

 cracked the whole side wall being cracked at short 

 intervals. 



The Pacific Insurance building, on the northeast 

 corner of California and Leidesdorff Streets, shows 

 numerous small cracks in the walls. 



Squarza's building on Leidesdorff Street is badly 

 cracked from top to bottom ; also the continuation of 

 building forming the southeast corner of Sacramento 

 and Leidesdorff Streets. 



J. G. Hodge & Co.'s building, on the southwest 

 corner of Sacramento and Sansome Streets, was con- 

 siderably cracked and the shelving in the store was 

 twisted out of place. 



The American Express building was badly cracked, 

 especially on the Halleck Street side. 



The Bank of California building, northwest corner 

 of Sansome and California Streets, had the stone or- 

 naments on top and balustrades thrown down ; also 

 in the arches of the doors and windows the joints be- 

 tween the stones opened with the shock of the earth- 

 quake. On the California Street side the stone cor- 

 nice was broken in places and the main west wall 

 showing a decided crack. 



Northeast corner of Sansome and Halleck Street, 

 front and side wall of old building, American Theatre, 

 parapet wall thrown down and the rest of the build- 

 ing in a very dangerous condition. Brick building, 

 south side or Sacramento Street, No. 425, occupied by 

 A. Wasserman & Co., badly cracked. 



No. 415 Sansome Street, front wall badly cracked ; 

 occupied by Williams, Bornstein & Co. 



Nos. 221 and 223 Battery^ Street, east side, are badly 

 injured, the front wall having fallen in. 



The southwest corner of the building at the south- 

 west corner of Battery and Halleck Streets is badly 

 cracked, as also parapet wall of the building adjoin- 

 ing. 



Building southeast corner of Battery and Halleck 

 Streets, corner parapet wall down, and main wall very 

 badly cracked. 



Brick store northwest corner of California and Front 

 Streets, occupied by DeWitt, Kittle & Co., east para- 

 pet wall almost all down. 



At the northwest corner of Halleck and Front 

 Streets, a brick store, occupied by Castle Bros., with 

 parapet walls on south side, is all down, with part 

 of the main wall. Some of the roof bracing timber* 

 also came down. The north parapet wall fell down. 



A building, No. 317, south side Sacramento, was 



