ILLUSTRATIONS
| The Awful Horror of an Earthquake | [Frontispiece] |
| A Panorama of the Ruins | [Frontispiece] |
| Business District of San Francisco | [Frontispiece] |
| Former Mayor James D. Phelan | [11] |
| Mayor Eugene E. Schmitz | [11] |
| Looking East on Market Street | [12] |
| View from Fifth and Market Streets | [12] |
| Market Street, Scene of Ruins | [31] |
| United States Guards in Charge of Dead | [32] |
| Street Torn Up by Earthquake | [41] |
| Stockton Street | [42] |
| Grant Avenue | [42] |
| Mission Street | [43] |
| O’Farrell Street | [43] |
| Looking North from Sixth and Market Streets | [44] |
| The Orpheum Theatre | [44] |
| San Francisco on Fire | [53] |
| Destroyed Wholesale Houses | [54] |
| Cracks in Earth | [63] |
| Ruins of Emporium Building | [63] |
| Map—Bird’s-Eye View of San Francisco | [64] |
| Ruins of Hall of Justice | [65] |
| Looking Down Market Toward Call Building | [66] |
| From California Street Toward Call Building | [66] |
| Market Street Before the Disaster | [75] |
| The Devouring Flames | [76] |
| Mark Hopkins Institute, Nob Hill | [85] |
| United States Mint | [86] |
| New Postoffice Building | [87] |
| Jefferson Square | [88] |
| Chronicle Building | [97] |
| St. Francis Hotel (Before the Earthquake) | [97] |
| Ferry House | [98] |
| Free Water | [115] |
| Distributing Clothes | [115] |
| Wires Destroyed | [116] |
| Military Camp | [116] |
| Kitchens in the Street | [133] |
| Wing of City Hall, Crumbled | [133] |
| Cattle Killed | [134] |
| St. John’s Church, Ruined | [134] |
| Camp Kitchen in Ball Park | [151] |
| Shacks in Golden Gate Park | [151] |
| Governor Pardee | [152] |
| Major General Adolphus Greely | [152] |
| Refugees on Telegraph Hill | [169] |
| General Funston and Wife | [170] |
| Vendome Hotel, San Jose | [187] |
| Postoffice, San Jose | [188] |
| Corner of Baptist Church | [205] |
| Kearney Street, San Francisco | [205] |
| Ferry Building | [206] |
| Military Quarters | [206] |
| Randolph Storage | [223] |
| Switchboard Destroyed | [223] |
| St. Dominici Church, Freak with Steeple | [224] |
| St. Dominici Church, Wrecked | [224] |
| Chinese Refugees | [241] |
| Flat Building, Sunk | [242] |
| Seeking Lost Friends | [259] |
| All that Was Left of a Fine Residence | [259] |
| Soldiers’ Encampment | [260] |
| Alameda Park | [260] |
| Dolores Mission | [277] |
| Wreck and Ruin | [278] |
| Wreck and Ruin | [278] |
| Crack in Earth | [295] |
| Ghoulish Thieves Looting the Dead | [296] |
| Effect of Earthquake on Modern Steel Building | [313] |
| Vesuvius During Recent Eruption | [314] |
| Road Leading to Vesuvius Before Eruption | [314] |
MAP OF SAN FRANCISCO AND VICINITY.
Showing towns and section of country that suffered the most from effects of earthquake.