EARTHQUAKE DOES NOT CAUSE CITY TO SINK
CITY ENGINEER MAKES PARTIAL SURVEY
AND FAILS TO FIND ANY GENERAL DEPRESSION
Three parties sent out by City Engineer Thomas P. Woodward for the
purpose of ascertaining whether or not the city as a whole had sunk as a
result of the recent earthquake shock have made a partial report. The
partial report shows no general depression, though there are many places
throughout the city where there are sinks.
The most notable depressions are on Valencia from Nineteenth to
Twentieth, lower Market, Howard and Seventeenth and Eighteenth, Van
Ness from Vallejo to Green and on Folsom in the region of Seventeenth
street. The southeast corner of the new Postoffice building [at Seventh and Mission streets] extended over
an old stream and here there is a depression of fully four feet. The sinking
is confined almost entirely to the lower parts of the city, and particularly
to made ground. Mr. Woodward gives his opinion that there was no
general
depression of the city whatever.
SAN FRANCISCO CALL
APRIL 29, 1906
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