QUINCY HILL WATER TANK DISASTER (1909) - CONTINUED

Looking from the bottom of the Quincy hillside, across Avery Street and all the way down Tenth Street.
(Photo courtesy of Kristian Baxter.)

Local residents view the debris carried by the tank waters to the home on Tenth and Avery Streets. This house still stands.

A policeman stands in the wreckage of a house washed down off the hill.

This house on the side of the hill (above) was destroyed.

Looking east on Tenth Street. Below: Looking east on Tenth Street in December 1968.

Looking east on Tenth Street toward Avery Street and Quincy Hill. H. C. Casper's store on the left survived until the late 1960s or early '70s. See the Harry Barnett photograph of the same building, below. (Photo courtesy of Dan Kemper)

Looking west on Tenth Street toward the First Presbyterian Church on Market.

Cleaning up the debris left by the waters on Tenth Street. The houses behind the men are still standing on the south side of the street.

Bystanders watch a couple of bodies being retrieved from the rubble at the corner of Tenth and Avery.

This southward view of the disaster on top of Quincy Hill shows the bottoms of the broken water tanks and the destruction of the area around them, along with the houses on Shattuck Avenue (upper right) and the bend in Quincy Street (upper left). The house at the top of the photo is in the 900 block of Quincy.

Looking down from the top of Quincy Hill to Tenth and Avery Streets in 2009, you can see that many of the houses on Tenth (including the little Victorian on the corner) are still standing. (Photo by Rob Shriner.)

A couple stand at the top of the steps in the 1940s.