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Show CfrECTS SAVED I THROUGH BURIAL . Costly Vases end Much Household Goods . Es? cape This Way. SAN FRANCISCO, April 2t-The knowledge that has come to people of the possibility of saving household -effects through Durlal during cyclones was put to good use during the big Are. -The back yards of Russian hill residents were freely used aa burial ground for all kinds of household goods, even costly .vases, silverware and bric-a-brac being planted In holes dug for this , purpose. . The chief clerk of the International hotel, who lived in a house on the corner cor-ner of Vallejo and Leavenworth streets, saved the greater part of the furniture of two floors In this way. s Digging Into a sloping bank at the rear of his residence a hole was made ten feet square, and into this was placed trunks, bedding and household effects of every description. The building was completely swept away, not even a cinder cin-der being left of the woodwork, and yet when the goods were dug up the mattresses mat-tresses and similar Inflammable belongings belong-ings were free even .from the smell of fire. , A foot of earth over buried goods proved ample protection for the most destructible de-structible goods, and many dollars' worth of family possessions were saved in this way. |