Union Square →
At eight o'clock Wednesday evening I passed through Union Square. It was packed with refugees. Thousands of them had gone to bed on the grass.
Why it's here: On the night of April 18, 1906, thousands of people who had lost their homes camped in Union Square, until the fire reached three sides of it and the St. Francis Hotel on the fourth side caught fire. More than 3,000 people died in the earthquake and fire.
Here Before Us