Lilligs in the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7372854n&tag=contentMain;contentBody

Grandma Lavery's Aunt Regina, Uncle John, and Uncle Nick were all living in San Francisco at the time of this film. The three of them were all in the Great SF Earthquake that struck just a few days after this was filmed. Uncle John suffered a severe head injury from a falling timber in their building. Regina brought him back to Kansas City and he was institutionalized at the Sanitarium in Osawatomie where he later died in 1912.

If you watch the entire 60 Minutes feature you will see a short part of Market Street after the earthquake showing the devastation and every building virtually destroyed. Over 3,000 lost their lives and 300,000 were left homeless out of a total population of 410,000 at the time.