Note 3 — PART I ORGANIZING THE FORCE AND EMERGENCY METHODS
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Report of the sub-committee on statistics to the chairman and Committee on the Reconstruction of San Francisco (see page 10), April 24, 1907.
[4] The classification and count were made from the block books of the Norwich Union Insurance Company. Each separate building with an independent entrance was estimated as a building. The number and character of buildings destroyed were:
Character of buildings Buildings destroyed
Wooden framed buildings 24,671
Brick—Classes B and C 3,168
Brick and wood (unclassified) 259
Fireproof—Class A 42
Stone 15
Corrugated iron (wooden frame) 33
Total 28,188
[5] General Greely quoted the chief of the Census Bureau as giving 185,000 as the population of the burned area in 1900.