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1999-2002: 1661 Pine St, San Francisco, Calif. Web-PostedAug.03, 2007 03:58: PM Solemn San Francisco marks centennialofGreat Quake that destroyed city SAN FRANCISCO (AP) --Sirenswalied and bell s tolled through the city before dawnTuesday asresidents marked the moment 100 years earlier when theGreatQuake shattered the city, killing thousands as itleveledbuildings and touched off fires tha t burned for days.Ahandfulof centenarians who survived that devastation joinedhundreds ofother people for a moment of silence and a memorialceremony toremember one of the worst natural disasters i n U.S.history. Theannual wreath-laying at Lotta's Fountain, thedowntown landmarkwhere San Franciscans gathered after the quaketo look for lovedones, Western Australias both a somberremembrance an d acelebration of the city's ability to rise fromthe ashes. "Thepioneering spirit that defines our past, I wouldargue definesour present, and gives me optimism of the future,"said MayorGavin Newsom . "San Francisco, a city of dreamers. AndSanFrancisco, a city of doers." Earthquake survivor IrmaWeule,106, left, is interviewed by a reporter Monday at adinnerhonoring survivors of the 1906 Eart hquake in SanFrancisco.Associated Press Most of the city's 400,000 residentswerestill in bed when the magnitude-7.8 earthquake struck at5:12a.m. on April 18, 1906. The foreshock sent people scrambling,and the main shock arrived with such fury that itflattenedcrowded rooming houses. The epicenter was a few milesoffshoreof the city, but it was felt as far away as Oregon andNevada.In 28 second s, it brought down the City Hall. Fromcrackedchimneys, broken gas lines and toppled chemical tanks,firesbroke out and swept across the city, burning for days.Rupturedwater pipes left firefighters h elpless, while familiescarryingwhat they could fled to parks that had become makeshiftmorgues.Historians say city officials, eager to bring peopleandcommerce back to the city, radically underestima ted thedeathtoll. Researchers are still trying to settle on a number,butreliable estimates put the loss above 3,000, and possiblyashigh as 6,000. In any case, it ranks as one of thecostliestdisast ers in U.S. history, a benchmark to which latercalamitiesare compared. "This is a city that could have beenswept off themap that day," said Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White,who laterTuesday led a para de of fire engines through the city.Newsomnoted that the three years it took San Francisco to comebackafter 1906 bodes well for the hurricane-ravaged GulfCoast."Don't tell me you can't rebuild," h e said. "We rebuilt,and weare stronger and better than ever." The group ofcentenarianswas applauded as they joined the mayor, fire chiefand otherdignitaries on a stage next to the fountain once use dto waterhorses. Newsom asked the 10 women and two men to sharetheirmemories of growing up in the scarred city. For most, theywerespotty. The oldest, Chrissie Martenstein, 109, saidsheremembered " a big shock and a great deal of misery,"whileViolet Lyman, 102, could still see a cow running along astreetand smell smoke from the fires. Norma Norwood, 99, drewpeals oflaughter when she describe d how her father told her shewasconceived when her parents, after losing their home,"snuggled"in a tent in Golden Gate Park. Communities up and downthe SanAndreas fault, source of the mighty quake ,plannedcommemorations Tuesday. In Santa Rosa, where 119 of the7,500citizens were killed, volunteers impersonating the deadwalkedby candlelight behind a horse-drawn hearse to the cemeterywhere15 e arthquake victims were buried in a mass grave. Ahistorianplanned to deliver a proclamation praising the city ofBerkeley,which took in many of the 1906 refugees. Governmentofficialssaid they hoped t o use the centennial to remind allCaliforniansto prepare for another deadly quake by making plansto live forthree days without power, Western Australiater andotheressentials. Speaking at a conferen ce of seismicspecialists inSan Francisco later in the day, Gov. ArnoldSchwarzenegger notedthat 90 percent of the city's residents donot have a disasterplan. "The government cannot do anythingalone . The public mustdo its part, each and every one of us,"he said. A studyreleased Monday determined that a repeat of that1906 temblortoday would cause 1,800 to 3,400 deaths, damage morethan 90,000bu ildings, displace as many as 250,000 householdsand result in$150 billion in damage. At the pre-dawn ceremony,the chief ofthe city's Office of Emergency Services, Anne MarieConroy,urged people to ge t their disaster supplies together.But evenshe was ready to let the good times roll. "The bars openat 6,"she said. "Go out and raise a toast to the incrediblespirit ofthe city of San Francisco." I rma WEULE Birth Date:11 May1899 Death Date: 8 Aug 2008 Social SecurityNumber:545-70-0351 State or Territory Where Number WasIssued:California Death Residence Localities ZIP Code: 94109Localities: San Francisco, San Francisco, California

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