This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ...30-inch pipe was thrown some 60 feet to one side. It was torn in two for over 100 feet and thrown bodily, in two parts, and about at right angles to its original line; so that, no matter what construction could have been put there, it could not have been maintained there, owing to the evidently great violence of the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ...30-inch pipe was thrown some 60 feet to one side. It was torn in two for over 100 feet and thrown bodily, in two parts, and about at right angles to its original line; so that, no matter what construction could have been put there, it could not have been maintained there, owing to the evidently great violence of the shock. Other portions of the Pilarcitos 30-inch pipe were destroyed by the earthquake, pulling the pipe apart in many places, while, at other places, it was telescoped. (See Map 13 and photographs, from 1 to 19 inclusive.) 2. The San Andres pipe line, which consists of 44-inch, 37-inch and 30-inch pipe, was badly ruptured near Baden Station (about in the middle of the line) and suffered some other minor damage. 3. The 44-inch Crystal Springs pipe line was badly ruptured in seven places between the Crystal Springs dam and Millbrae Station, and also where, on a substantial pipe trestle, it had to cross the three swamps or marshes in the three respective valleys, viz.: the San Bruno, Guadaloupe and Visitacion Valleys. Those portions of these long pipe crossings that crossed over the softer portion of these marshes in an almost northerly direction, having been subjected by the earthquake to a number of violent shakings from southwest to northeast and vice versa, were completely demolished down to the pile and cap foundation, which latter, in almost every case, were left uninjured. In some cases, where the 44-inch pipe had been thrown straight up in the air first, it had, in its downward course, not only destroyed the strong superstructure but had, in several instances, crushed the heavy timber caps bolted down to the tops of the piles. In no case was one of the piles injured. I at once determined that it would take about two weeks (provided all repa...
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All Editions of The Water Supply of San Francisco, California, Before, During and After the Earthquake of April 18th, 1906: And the Subsequent Conflagration