| OCR Text |
Show For "San Francisci Magazine" 120 Green Street, San Francisco Adults MRS. COKEY'S STORY The underlined sections of this article appeared in the Deseret News on April 18th, 19th and 20th of 1906, Mrs. Corey, tiny, gray-haired and stoop-shouldered, sat at the grand piano in her daughter's living room and played a spritely waltz. When she finished she said, "That's the last piece of music I played on our piano the night before the earthquake." She sighed. " Our piano, our home -were burned. Everything along Powell Street burned," Earthquake! Panic, Flood, Death, Fire! A Bay of Boom and Disaster! San Francisco Chronicle Building is a skeleton. All the newspaper plants have been rendered useless. At this moment there is only one wire out of San Francisco - a postal wire. The Postal Building is badly damaged. "That was seventy four years ago," Mrs. Corey said, "-April 17th, 1906, out I remember it as if it were yesterday. I can still see the clouds of smoke and fire and feel the tremors under my feet..*.»#• You really want to hear about it?" |
