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Ruins of San Francisco

Don't know what date
it is Sunday.

Dear Mother & Sisters

Now that I have
little time I will write
you few lines to let you
know I am not hurt as
yet but I had an awful
narrow escape. I arrived
in town the night before
this terrible thing happened.
I dropped a postal at the
depot in Sacto telling
you I was leaving town

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[flying?] transomes & plaster
we rushed down stairs
and across to the docks & we
was dodging live wires &
bricks & everything there.
We were in our under clothes
the house went in a heap.
We got a pair a pants & a
jumper out of a broken clothing
store window & we finally
got a pair of shoes apiece
& when we came to our
senses from the fright
the whole town was blazing