Bisbee daily review., 1906-04-19

The part of the city devoted to com merce, and most effected by the great shock of yesterday, lies along the shores of the bay and is moderately level. Indeed part of the site is re- claimed from the bay. Some of the large structures destroyed yesterday were reared on piles driven to bed rock through made ground. h that To- cality vast sand dunes had been level ed in order to conform to the street system. Near the water front the streets are narrow. Elsewhere the thoroughfares are of ample width. Market street, on which the most damage was done, starts at the Ferry building and cuts across the city in a southwesterly direction. Being the leading thoroughfare Market street at all dimes presents an animated appear ance. That the loss of life should have been great on such a street with its skyscrapers crashing to the earth. is not surprising. Some of the largest department stores in the city are on this street and most of them were wrecked yesterday. To the north of Market lies the chief shopping district on Kearny, Sutter, Post. Geary and Grant avenues, Stockton street and Union square. In all of these the loss seems to have been great.
 Those modern structures of steel and stone, constructed chiefly since the year 1900, stood the test of the great quake best. Up to the year 1900 the city contained 50.494 frame build ings. against 3,SS1 of stone and brick h 1900, however, the example of the Chronicle in erecting ten-story steel structure was followed by a great number of the big concerns. The Call plant and building destroyed yesterday were worth at least s2,000.0O0. The city hall was worth s7,0OO, 900 and was the most conspicuous building in the city. It was surmounted by a dome 332 feet high. It was considered won derfully solid. More than twenty-five years were occupied in building il. Its walls were of brick covered with ce- ment Architecturally it was a com puSite The interior of its beautiful dome was decorated with California Marbles Occupying it were all the administrative departments of the city as well as several civil courts.
 All who have visited San Francisco are familiar with the Ferry building, since most strangers pass through it on entering the city. It is on the water front, is built of light colored sand stone surmounted by a graceful clock tower, and is 500 feet in length. It houses a mammoth exhibit of the min eral and agricultural resources of Cal ifornia in lofty nave running through its entire length.
 To meet the emergency of the wounded the city has forty-seven hos pitals, public and private. The emer- gency system has been so well de- veloped that yesterdays horrors were coped with in an expeditions manner. Few cities are better prepared to care for victims of accidents.
 Mechanics pavilion, used yesterday as a temporary morgue for the first 400 dead recovered from the burning debris. is the largest auditorium i2 the city. h it Jeffries won his fame as a world champion.
 The Grand opera house, which was destroyed, was one of the largest
  .heaters of the city.
 If anything could have withstood the shock of the quake it would have been | the postoffice, yet that magnificent new and built of granite as t was. collapsed as a frame dwelling l night have done. While not imposing | architecturally the postoffice cost the l government more than s5,000,000 and 1 was only completed in 1903. It i'm l pressed all who beheld it by its 1 In it was the federal l governments mint and sub-treasury. l
 On First and Second streets the | wholesale liquor houses were located. ! Their buildings were destroyed as | we'll as their stock. which added fierce 1 'uel to the devastating flames.
 Although it withstood the shock of | he quake the magnificent Palace hotel I shortly before noon succumbed to the | lanes. Across the street stands the i Grand. and the flames were speedily | to that hotel. Thus the ,ity lost it's two largest hotels within ln hour.
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