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San Francisco Earthquake Devastates City and Kills Many
A powerful earthquake struck San Francisco at 5 15 am causing widespread damage from Market to Mission. The Valencia hotel collapsed burying seventy five people. fires broke out with scarce water. the Associated Press and other offices were damaged. at least twenty one bodies were taken to the morgue and property losses reached forty million dollars.
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San Francisco
Market
Mission Street
Bay
Call and Examiner
Associated Press
Valencia Hotel
Seventeenth
Eighteenth Streets
Valencia Street
Fourth Street
Valencia
Seventh Street
Howard and
Mission
Kingsley
Twenty-second
Lipman
Eighteenth
Southern Pacific Hospital
Episcopal Church
Eleventh
Studebaker Carriage Factory
Tenth
Market Streets
Namin
Market Street
Palace Hotel
San Fancisco
Postel
Postal Telegraph Company
Santa Fe
Point Richmond
Ferry
Front Streets
Park Section
Western Division
Davis
Front
Battery
Sansom
Montgomery
Kearney
Spear
Main
Bale
Fremont
Fresno
Sacramento
Western Union