N.L. CHRISTENSEN Scripps League Newspapers. At 5 o’clock the morning April 18, 1906, widow Hasel Yardley slipped out of her apartment near Market Street to look for bargains at adjacent fruit and vegetable stalls, leaving 2-year-old daughter Annie asleep. Suddenly in the gray dawn she was terrified by the rumble and shock of a powerful… Continue reading Friday Is Anniversary of San Francisco Quake