After this 1906 disaster, Mayor Eugene Schmitz authorized the summary execution of looters
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10_02 Cover.indd - Ari Kelman  SAN FRANCISCO IS BURNING: The Untold Story of the 1906 Earthquake and Firestorm. By Dennis .... The city's mayor, Eugene Schmitz, and former mayor,.
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jeopardy/1655_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  MAYORS | After this 1906 disaster, Mayor Eugene Schmitz authorized the summary execution of looters | the San Francisco earthquake. right: Freddy. Wrong:.
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Unnatural Disaster | The Nation  Sep 14, 2006 ... Three new books reappraise the massive earthquake of 1906, ... The city's mayor, Eugene Schmitz, and former mayor, James Phelan, ... As panic spread in the streets, Schmitz authorized troops patrolling the ruined city to shoot looters. ... to carry out a summary execution in the midst of a tragedy like this.
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The dark days after the 1906 earthquake / New Orleans' chaos ...  Sep 11, 2005 ... The dark days after the 1906 earthquake / New Orleans' chaos echoes S.F. violence ... The quake lasted for less than a minute, but the fires burned for three days, ... When San Francisco Mayor Eugene Schmitz made his way down ... The first looter was shot while trying to break into Shreve's Jewelry Store...
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1906 Earthquake: Law Enforcement - Presidio of San Francisco ...  Amidst the chaos following the 1906 earthquake, Presidio soldiers were deployed ... With this military presence came a bold proclamation from Mayor Eugene Schmitz: ... been authorized by me to KILL any and all persons found engaged in Looting or in ... Denial of Disaster, (San Francisco, Comeron and Company, 1989).
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Casualties and damage after the 1906 Earthquake  Apr 7, 2016 ... Stanford University 1906 Earthquake damage. ... 498 deaths in San Francisco; 64 deaths in Santa Rosa; 102 deaths in and near San Jose ... estimated that over 3000 deaths were caused directly or indirectly by the catastrophe. ... Eyewitness Accounts  Other Major Earthquakes in the SF Bay Area  Learn...
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The St. Valentine's Day Massacre - Feb 14, 1929 - HISTORY.com  But Moran was late and happened to see police officers entering his ... Capone was jailed in 1931 and Moran lost so many important men that he could no ... al capone, alphonse capone, scarface, organized crime, chicago, 1920s, gambling .... murder seven members of the George Bugs Moran North Siders gang in a...
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The Great 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire | HistoryNet  Video: Watch the Nazi German Marder III in Action ... In the spring of 1906 San Francisco was a city boasting 410,000 inhabitants  a ... In 1846 the scraggly little village of Yerba Buena, named after a local shrub, was clustered near the ... resulting in broken gas lines and toppled candles and lamps that fueled raging fires.
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William Kemmler  The First Electrocution, August 6, 1890. | Robert ...  Aug 6, 2014 ... William Kemmler and the world's first electric chair. ... execution.of one William Kemmler, condemned for murdering his ... Matilda 'Tillie' Ziegler, Kemmler's girlfriend and victim. ... Americans had been hanged, shot, drowned and burned at various, ... Then he reconsidered his attitude to the death penalty.
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Old days in S.F. not so good - SFGate - San Francisco Chronicle  Jul 20, 2014 ... If you think the streets are dirty now, think about old San Francisco, say just before the ... Five people were killed in a 1901 teamsters strike; 31 were killed and over 1100 ... You can still find people of a certain age in Chinatown who will tell you about ... Carl Nolte is a San Francisco Chronicle columnist.
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THE ST. VALENTINE'S DAY MASSACRE - Ghosts of the Prairie  It was here, on Valentine's Day 1929, that the most spectacular mob hit in ... The following month, Capone shooters assassinated Hymie Weiss, who had been .... on the news, Capone stated, "the only man who kills like that is Bugs Moran". .... It was said that from these bricks come the legends of misfortune and bad luck.
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The Progressive Movement for the Recall, 1890s-1920 / Rod Farmer  adverse vote the term of any elective officer before the expiration of the .... In 1907 the progressive Los Angeles Express vehemently .... In the end, ... officials. Seattle, Washington voters added the recall to their city charter in 1906. ... statement on why the petitioners thought a particular elected official should be removed from.
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Execution by firing squad - Wikipedia  Execution by firing squad, in the past sometimes called fusillading is a method of capital punishment, particularly common in the military and in times of war. Execution by shooting is a fairly old practice. Some reasons for its use are that firearms are usually readily available and a ..... The last execution took place on 4 March 1947, as Francesco La Barbera,...
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Napoleon Exiled to St. Helena, 1815 - EyeWitness to History  Eyewitness account of Napoleon's exile to the island of St. Helena. ... Custer's Last Stand, The Death of Billy the Kid... San Francisco Earthquake, Sinking of the...
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Wyatt Earp Turns 165 | Chronicles Magazine  Mar 19, 2013 ... It was about 3 PM on October 26, 1881 as the town marshal and his informal ... William Clanton and Thomas and Robert Findley McLaury near the OK Corral. ... the window, drilled the anarchist, and rescued the hostages unharmed. .... then with their homicidal dentist friend, gunned them down in the street.
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A new probe into the mysteries of the St. Valentine's Day massacre ...  Feb 11, 2004 ... The St. Valentine's Day massacre of 1929 certified Chicago as the gangster ... We know who the victims were -- six henchmen of Capone rival George "Bugs" Moran, along with a 29-year-old optometrist who ... He lavished bribes on police, judges and journalists as he slaughtered competitors with impunity.
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MosconeMilk assassinations - Wikipedia  The MosconeMilk assassinations were the killings of San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk, who were shot and killed in San Francisco City Hall by former Supervisor Dan White on ... White committed suicide in 1985, a little more than a year after his release from prison.
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The Great San Francisco Earthquake - Apr 18, 1906 - HISTORY.com  On this day in History, The Great San Francisco Earthquake on Apr 18, 1906. ... On April 20, 20,000 refugees trapped by the massive fire were evacuated from the ... 3,000 people died as a result of the Great San Francisco Earthquake and the .... Well, there have been many accounts of my so-called adventures published in...
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The Sacco-Vanzetti Case (overview)  Jul 18, 2007 ... Note: For a different view of the Sacco-Vanzetti case than is given here, see ... At first this brutal murder and robbery, not uncommon in post-World War I ... Massachusetts courts, Vanzetti was tried first in the summer of 1920 on the lesser .... Sacco and Vanzetti were executed on August 23, 1927, a date that...
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German submarine sinks Lusitania - May 07, 1915 - HISTORY.com  Wilson's actions On the afternoon of May 7, 1915, the British ocean liner ... the same day, the American liner Housatonic was sunk by a German U-boat. .... of America's first well-known serial killers, is hanged to death in Philadelphia, ... Of 1,959 passengers and crew, 1,198 people were drowned, including 128 Americans.
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When, not if: how do San Franciscans live with the threat of the next ...  Mar 27, 2014 ... Risky cities: many tech firms have opened up in SoMa, ... by the 7.8-magnitude earthquake of 1906 which killed 3,000 people. ... miles of the city, consuming 28,000 buildings and leaving more than half ... since passed, this disaster has left a deep mental scar on the city. ..... In Athens it was about a hundred.