In pictures: Jack London's 1906 quake journey

His article in Collier's reads: "Wednesday night, while the whole city crashed and roared into ruin, was a quiet night...

"I passed Wednesday night in the path of the advancing flames, and in all those terrible hours I saw not one woman who wept, not one man who was excited, not one person who was in the slightest degree panic stricken…. Before the flames, throughout the night, fled tens of thousands of homeless ones."

Image: California State Parks