An interesting tidbit: the Southern Pacific Railroad was instrumental in recovery from this disaster. The telegraph station that provided train operating orders at Surf (which is located very close to the disaster site) had a telephone line to SP dispatch office in Los Angeles, and when a worker at Surf heard about the disaster nearby both telephone and telegraph messages were sent to the Los Angeles office, and SP was quickly able to assemble a rescue train that came down from San Francisco to help the survivors.
I enjoyed a sci-fi series of novels in the last couple of years of a pair of “4-stackers’ that were transported through a dimensional hole into a different past on Earth, along with some pissed off Japanese in some large WW2 naval vessels, it was called “Destroyermen”.
Damn, just damn.
How much trouble did those guys get into?
Losing one ship will wreck your day....but 7?