San Francisco Earthquake Victims

SAN FRANCISCO 1906 EARTHQUAKE- WHO PERISHED AND MORE This is on the site of the Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco, California. It is under “The Great 1906 Earthquake and Fire” section.Though there are many clickable subjects on this site, those of most importance to genealogists would be: Earthquake Newspaper Clippings Selected Subjects: Death Destruction Have Been the Fate of San Francisco “Hundreds Dead!” – Daily News April 18, 1906 Front Page Refugees Go to Oakland Devastation in Cities of Dead Heavy Earthquake Damage in Sonoma County Hollister Wrecked by the Earthquake Nine Killed in Santa Cruz Mountain Landslides Orphans Driven from Their Shelter Counting the 1906 Casualties Chinese Housed at Presidio – Later they Will Go to Hunter’s Point Mother of Fire Hero in Want Injured Firemen Recovering Eyewitness Accounts- They Cover the Earthquake and Fire Selected Subjects “Caruso on the Earthquake,” by Enrico Caruso (The opera singer) “Opening an Emergency Hospital”, by Dr. Charles V. Cross “Navy Firefighting Operations,” by Lt. Frederick Freeman “How the Army Worked to Save San Francisco,” by General Frederick Funston “Story of an Eyewitness,” by Jack London (The writer) “Thousands Flee From Blazing City,” by Bailey Millard “Who Perished”; List of Dead from the 1906 Earthquake These names were complied from newspapers of people who: Died as direct result of the earthquake Died as direct result of the fire Died after April 18 till the end of April,1906 from injuries they received from the earthquake or fire. Lists give: Name Variant Spellings Newspaper taken from Listing in San Francisco Directory

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http://www.sfmuseum.org/1906/06.html