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Three Fearful Days: San Francisco Memoirs of the 1906 Earthquake & Fire

The 1906 earthquake shook San Francisco for sixty seconds and ignited fires that raged for three days, killing more than 3,000 people and destroying 500 city blocks. Dozens of first-hand accounts by people who endured the catastrophe. Stories of watching the quake approach and rip open the streets.

Fighting the fire from inside the mint.

Being trapped in the basement as City Hall collapsed.

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