Rumors remained the main source of "information" until the combined issue of the Call-Chronicle-Examiner hit the streets. This issue, put together by homeless San Francisco newspapermen in Oakland without authorization from their publishers, has become the fondest souvenir of the earthquake and fire. The daring and determination of the boys who put it together characterize the whole tone of what the world would soon know as the "indomitable spirit of San Francisco." There's no magic in these words. The "indomitable spirit" was nothing more than fortitude, pride, a smile, and a disinclination to sit down and cry.

— The earth shook, the sky burned. by William Bronson (Page 76)