An Eyewitness Account of the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of April 18, 1906
from a view book on the earthquake by
Edith Tozier Weatherred

Photos from the view book are at the end of page 4.

Background
Edith Weatherred of Portland, Oregon, was a writer for the Portland Evening Telegram. She was a commissioner for the State of Oregon to select the state's site for the 1901 Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo.

On April 17, 1906 she was staying at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco.
If Edith had walked out of her hotel, at right, and walked up a block this is what she would have seen: Lotta's Fountain, a Sutter Street cable car, and the hustle and bustle of a city that would be in ruins the next morning. Here is her story.

Sutter and Market