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Show NOT ONE NOB HILL RESIDENCE ESCAPES I SAN FRANCISCO. April 27.-Of all the large residences throughout ', the . region known as Nob Hill not a single one escaped es-caped complete destruction. Here the ruins consist of costly marble walls and fiillars cracked and blackened, , of broad awns, now scorched, that surround shapeless shape-less heaps of brick masonry, tangled iron work and ashes of costly materials gathered gath-ered at home and abroad by the millionaire million-aire owners of the.1 stately palaces that made the hill the most beautiful residence district of the West. Only the walls of the Flood mansion still stand. The destruction of the others. Including In-cluding the Hopkins, Huntington, Stanford, Stan-ford, Crocker and Spreckels places, was complete, and - in some blocks even the older residents of San Francisco were pussled to determine Just where this building build-ing or that had stood. |