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Title: The history of the San Francisco disaster and Mount Vesuvius horror
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Banks, Charles Eugene, 1852-1932 Read, Opie Percival, 1852-1939
Subjects: San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906 Volcanoes Fires
Publisher: (Chicago? Ill. : s.n.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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THE SAN FRANCISCO DISASTER 63 prominent members of the general relief committee.He was shot in his automobile by members of the citi-zens patrol. Hugo Altschul, who was in the auto-mobile, was cut in the face by a bullet and anotherball pierced the seat and struck R. G. Seaman, actinglieutenant of the Second Company of the SignalCorps, in the back. The force of the bullet had beenspent and Seaman, who had been detailed on specialduty with Tilden, picked the ball out of his cartridgebelt. Tilden was a prominent commission merchant ofthis city, a major on the governors staff, and was oneof the foremost workers in the general relief work.He had taken his three children and a nurse from theFourteen Mile House, where they had been since theearthquake, to Menlo Park, where he had a summercottage. His automobile had been used as an ambu-lance in conveying sick and wounded to the hospitalsand was carrying the Red Cross flag. Besides this hehad the Red Cross insignia on his right arm. Accordin

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