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Courage Amid Flood of Suffering in San Francisco
A drenching rain worsens conditions for 5,000 plus evacuees in Jefferson Square Park and Mission Park camps. Guards and volunteers rush shelter provision as hundreds of homes are lost, with 19 doctors and 29 nurses tending exhausted refugees and a vast relief effort mobilizing across Presidio, North Beach, and Golden Gate Park.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jefferson Square Park
Fifth
Sixth
California National Guard
Glenn A. Durston
Spanish War Veterans’ Relief Committee
St. Paul Lutheran Church
Columbia Square
Market Street
Garfield Park
Mission District
Red Cross
New
Mission Park
Oakland
Berkeley
Presidio
Folsom Street Dock
Ft. Mason
Kreuthoff
Citizens’ Committee
San Francisco
Donald McCulloch Gedge
Harry Baehr
Steiner Street
Golden Gate Valley
North Beach
Election Commission
Golden Gate Park
Boston
Union
EB. A. Diggin
Harbor Emergency Hospital
the Park Museum
San Francis
Eco
Krauthoff
Department of California
Southern Pacific
Fourth
Kentucky
Leach
United States Mint
Mint
New York