San Francisco, the golden gate city, was a popular city in the 1900’s as people lived by the bay in a friendly lifestyle. Some would have even said to you that the city will last forever until that day! On April 18, 1906 a major earthquake hit San Francisco within a one minute span. In this minute many lives were affected as so with others.
The 18th was an odd day in San Francisco as Laura Pride went to bed at 2am after writing her article for the Chronicle. Suddenly the horses in the stalls starting scrawling and the firemen horse trucks were moving excitedly and grasping for safety. James Hopper who was also heading home from the chronicle started to notice that the sea was losing forces. The way James explains this site is how the city was filling. Father Charles Ramm dogs started barking which was to be believed to be because of the weather. At 5is Leonard Ingham, the visionary patrolman, woke up to realize that his dream came true. Everything he dreamed of woke him up but was realized that it was just a milk truck. The reason we realized this is because the milkman started having trouble steering his horses as they started ranting. Finally as Jesse Cook was heading to the city he was watching his watch and saw that the sk
In Conclusion the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 was a major learning experience as others were getting hurt. One thing which is said by many is “The further you are from the last big earthquake, the nearer you are to the next” (Witts 1) this comment can sum up how the people of San Francisco thinks about this event. These are people who really know now after this event that it’s not just an earthquake it’s a jump over into the future to supplement the history. The historical event of this time gave many new findings to San Francisco and the whole United States.
The aftermath of this event was felt for many weeks after even though they were minor. The major aftermath which was caused was the fires. The fires were started as the tremors were ending in that last minute which made the gas lines and electricity cables were broken with the ground moving. The lines ruptured and within seconds buildings started to burn. The fire company could not come to the rescue for all due to the injury of the chief and the damage done to the trucks. (Pollard 18) Another cause of these fires was the dynamite given to the citizens to blow up buildings to make room so the fire does not spread. This did help in one way but caused many more fires for the next three days because of the gas leaks. As they lit the dynamite the sparks started the gas lines which caused the other buildings to start on fi
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