crowded before its doors before the first deliveries were hot from the
oven. Here again police and soldiers kept order and permitted each
person to take only one loaf. The loaves were given out without cost.

These precautions were necessary, for earlier in the day bread had
sold as high as $1 a loaf and two loaves and a can of sardines brought
in one instance $3.50.

Mayor Schmitz took prompt and drastic steps to stop this extortion. By
his order all grocery and provision stores in the outlying districts
which had escaped the flames were entered by the police and their
goods confiscated.

Next to the need for food there was a cry for water, which until
Friday morning the authorities could not answer.

In spite of all efforts to relieve distress there was indescribable
suffering.

Women and children who had comfortable, happy homes a few days before
slept that night--if sleep came at all--on hay on the wharves, on the
sand lots near North beach, some of them under the little tents made
of sheeting, which poorly protected them from the chilling ocean
winds. The people in the parks were better provided in the matter of
shelter, for they left their homes better prepared.

Thousands of members of families were separated, ignorant of one
another's whereabouts and without means of ascertaining. The police on
Friday opened up a bureau of registration to bring relatives together.

[Illustration: Copyright 1906 by Tom M. Phillips.

=CRACKS CAUSED BY EARTHQUAKE.=

Front new Postoffice.]

[Illustration: Copyright 1906 by Tom M. Phillips.

=EMPORIUM BUILDING.=

Largest department store west of Chicago.]

[Illustration: =BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF SAN FRANCISCO.=

A general view of city looking west toward the Pacific Ocean, also
showing locations such as Nob Hill, business district, Market Street,
Golden Gate and the famous Cliff House.]

[Illustration: Copyright 1906, by American-Journal-Examiner. All
rights reserved. Any infractions of this copyright will be prosecuted
to the full extent of the law.

=HALL OF JUSTICE.=

As photographs are true to life, they also convey to the eye correct
views of this vast destruction.]

[Illustration: Copyright 1906 by Tom M. Phillips.

=LOOKING DOWN MARKET STREET.=

Call Building in the distance.]

[Illustration: Copyright 1906 by Tom M. Phillips.

=VIEW FROM CALIFORNIA STREET.=

The Call Building also shown in background.]

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