IV CONTENTS. 
The Effects of the Earthquake and Fire on Various Structures, 
etc. — Continued. 
Conditions in San Francisco — Continued. 
Behavior of individual structures — Continued. rage. 
Merchants' Exchange building 41 
Mills Building v 41 
United States mint 42 
Monadnock Building 42 
Murphy Building 43 
Mutual Life Building 43 
Pacific States Telephone and Telegraph Company's building- 43 
Post-office building 44 
Itialto Building 45 
St. Francis Hotel 45 
Scott Building 46 
Security Savings Bank 46 
Shreve Building 46 
Sloane Building 47 
Spring Valley Water Company's building 47 
United States subtreasury 47 
Union Trust Company's building ^ 47 
Volkman Building 48 
Wells-Fargo Building 48 
Aspects of the fire disaster 49 
Fire history and recommendations of insurance boards 49 
Fire-resisting qualities of structures and structural materials 51 
Water supply and other methods of fighting fire 55 
General lessons of the earthquake and fire 56 
Obstacles to the reconstruction of San Francisco . 59 
Statistics and general information 60 
The Effects of the Earthquake and Fire on Buildings, Engineering 
Structures, and Structural Materials, by John S. Sewell 62 
Introduction 62 
Scope of the investigation 62 
Acknowledgements 63 
Extracts from the report of a committee of the National Board of 
Fire Underwriters on San Francisco conditions 64 
Some features of the earthquake and fire 66 
Amount of destruction due to the earthquake and fire, respec- 
tively 66 
Fire-fighting operations; the use of dynamite 66 
Temperatures of the Baltimore and San Francisco fires 68 
Earthquake- and fire-resisting qualities of structures and structural 
materials 69 
Effect of fire on Government and class A commercial buildings 69 
Vaults and safes 69 
Behavior of structural members and materials 71 
Behavior of individual structures 76 
Academy of Sciences building 76 
JEtna (Young, or Commissary) Building 76 
Appraisers' warehouse 77 
Aronson Building 78 
