S.F. leaders plan to revise death toll of 1906 quake

From: Deseret News (Salt Lake City) | Date: January 26, 2005| Author: Lisa Leff Associated Press | Copyright information

SAN FRANCISCO -- The city supervisors agreed Tuesday to raise the official death toll from the 1906 earthquake in time for next year's centennial of a disaster that was a defining event in the city's history.

The move came at the urging of a retired city archivist who has spent much of the past 40 years poring over records to come up with a more accurate death count from the earthquake.

The number has stood at 478 since 1907, but Gladys Hansen, now the curator at the Museum of th...

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