1906 Earthquake & Fire, View east on Washington from Gough with single cable car track of the Washington and Jackson line. artistic flames [Looking east on California St. from Steiner St.] (incorrect location)[Even the emigrants from deeply religious European countries had caught enough of the American spirit to realize that the only way to stop the fire was by dynamite and not by miracle. Common intelligence seemed to understand the need of the military measures and the folly of complaint.--Collier's Weekly. ]