She has cut the arteries of protection againstįire, and the blazing demon leaps and dances through walls and high-built battlements of stone as though they were paper. The very ground, upon which all has been based, is rising and falling like the waves of the oceanīeyond, and the shrieks of the pierced and pinned mingle with the weeping of the homeless and childless and fatherless. The dawn to the sternest reality of Night-Night aflame with huge torches of consuming greed, eating their way unimpeded through It is a picture of men and women being roused from dreams of One is a scene of horror beyond the power of words to depict. Out of the curling smoke that rises like incense for the dead and destroyed two pictures are formed. Three terrible minutes have vanquished the work of years.Ī shiver of fevered pain has swept along the spine of Earth, and San Francisco is ashes. From out the black playground of Death rise huge phantom shapes of Hunger and Thirst.Ī mass of smouldering embers tell grimly of Nature's dread orgies. A great wail of distress is borne across the waters

To-day he sees a shroud of smoke, outspread above a charred skeleton. Great ships cradled at this door of commerce. Of the Pacific and bore him on to the matchless harbor he marked the towers and columns, the serried ranks of homes and the Waving a giant torch of quenchless flame, swept from her proud seat at the edge of the sunset sea the splendid city of theīut yesterday the inbound mariner saw from his lookout her jeweled hills, aglow with life. SHIVERING, but sure in its rock-ribbed grasp, the hand of Destruction has reached up through the thin crust of the world and, Graphic Accounts of the Eruptions of Vesuvius and Many Other Volcanoes, Explaining the Causes of Volcanic Eruptions and Earthquakes Compiled from Stories Told by Eye Witnesses of These Frightful Scenesīy James Russel Wilson, the Well-known Author Embellished with a Great Number of Superb Photographic Views Taken Before and After the Terrible Calamity Issue by Thousands Driven From Their Homes This Unparallelled Catastrophe Leaves San Francisco a Heap of Smouldering Ruins-īeautiful Buildings in Ashes To Which is Added Terrible Devastation and Heart-Rending Scenes Immense Loss of Life and Hundreds of Millions of Property Destroyed The Most Appalling Disaster of Modern Times ContainingĪ Vivid Description of the Overwhelming Calamity- Suddenness of the Blow- Great Number of Victims- Fall of Great Buildings. University of California, Berkeley F869.S3 W8

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