San Francisco Earthquake Loss of Life by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · May 30, 1906

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 32, No. 21.

San Francisco Earthquake Loss of Life

By Editor

Loss of life, too, in San Francisco has been greatly minimized by some of the newspapers. We have no desire to magnify it. It probably reached not a unit less than 1,500 in that city. Some have placed it at 1,000; others at 2,000, and still others at still greater figures. God only knows how many went down under crashing walls and tangles of iron, and heaps of brick and mortar. How many burned in the after fires, which raged for three days, we do not know. Only the last days will tell, when the books of God are opened. At last reports Santa Rosa had taken from her ruins 102 dead bodies.