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around me. Sucha sight Inever saw. 
Big gas holders were rocking and the 
water splashing out of them. After 
about 30 seconds the motion stopped, 
and I ran into the governor’s room. 
and immediately saw it was out of 
commission, so ran and turned on the 
valve, giving the city full holder pres- 
sure. From there I ran to the boiler 
room, and found everything o.k. It 
is a miracle that they did not burst. 
The damage to the plant in my mind 
is very small. The new 2,000,000 
cubic-foot holder is not damaged so 
far as the man who is building it can 
see; it being set on such a solid foun- 
dation saved it. The 200,000-foot 
holder is strained some, but not seri- 
ously. It was full of gas through the 
quake and supplied gas to the city un- 
til 10 A.M. that morning when it was 
shut off by Capt. Lyman’s orders. 
The gas ovens are not seriously dam- 
aged. We made gasin the old oven 
after the quake and found it o.k. 
With the exception of one pipe that 
broke apart due to the ground settling, 
there was no damage to it. The new 
ovens are cold now and I cannot as- 
certain exact facts about them, but 
from an outside examination they are 
all right, with the exception that they 
have settled down in the ground some. 
This is not serious to the running of 
machinery though. This oven did not 
have the pile foundation under it. 
Mr. Stutt says the damage to the 
yard is very little. The office at 420 
Powell street burned flat,—nothing 
saved that I know of. I saw the office 
at 7.30 A.M. after the quake, and it 
was a complete wreck from the shock ; 
it burned down the next day. Capt. 
Lyman was burnt out twice, and is 
now living at some army quarters. 
“‘My room also was burned but I 
got to it soon enough to get my trunk 
into the park, where there were 1,000 
people with all that they could save. 
«You cannot imagine what has oc- 
curred here, or what the people have 
had to suffer. Rich and poor are the 
same in ’Frisco now, and the city 
needs all the help that big hearts can 
dofor it. They are working like 
leroes . to teed tne:) peoples); Lhe 
day of the earthquake I went to 
my room and found the fire was with- 
in three or four blocks of us. I 
waited a while thinking it would not 
reach us, but was shortly orderd out, 
so that they could blow our block up. 
I got a team of horses and got the 
landlady’s trunks and belongings out 
ihto the park nearby. Then I went 
back to the plant and stayed there 
until I was driven to the water front 
by the flames. Mr. Stutt was with 
me, he having come to the plant an 
hout previously. Here we were al- 
lowed to board a fire tug which had 
been fighting the flames. Mr. Stutt 
and myself were taken from there to 
Saulater and put ashore, but as Mr. 
Stutt wanted to get to his home in 
Oakland, we hired a launch and went 
from there to ’Frisco. So you see 
I am in good hands. 
‘‘One more thing about the Com- 
pany’s works. The pipes in the 
street were proven to bein a fairly 
good condition by the holder after the 
earthquake, as a test showed that 
there were only 9,000 feet going out 
into the street, and some of this might 
have been passing through broken 
pipes in the buildings. All meters 
put into the houses are a loss but I 
think that the San Francisco Coke & 
Gas Co. has suffered the least of ‘any 
of the companies, and if it continues 
to supply gas to the new city, it will 
be the first in commission. 
“‘’Frisco is building up, everybody 
is full of courage, and are now form- 
ing plans for rebuilding. ”’ 
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