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Title: San Francisco's horror of earthquake and fire ... to which is added graphic accounts of the eruptions of Vesuvius and many other volcanoes, explaining the causes of volcanic eruptions and earthquakes, comp. from stories told by eye witnesses of these frightful scenes
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Wilson, James Russel. (from old catalog)
Subjects: San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906 Volcanoes. (from old catalog)
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., National publishing co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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HOa, Q> DCQCIjjLju oz D CONTENTS. PAGE CHAPTER I.Awful Havoc by Earthquake and Fire in San Erancisco • • 33 CHAPTER II.San Franciscos Fine Residences in Flames and Whole Busi-ness Section Destroyed 46 CHAPTER III.Woman Refugee and Other Eye-Witnesses Relate Their Thrilling Experiences 65 CHAPTER IV.Pitiful Scenes Where Once Stood a Great City ...... 80 CHAPTER V.The Doomed Metropolis a Mass of Smoldering Ruins ... 92 CHAPTER VI.Heroism of Brave Men Fighting for Life 103 CHAPTER VII.Famine and Pestilence Follow Earthquake and Fire 117 CHAPTER VIII.President Calls for Aid and Congress Makes a Generous Appropriation 130 CHAPTER IX.The Queen City of the Pacific Coast Paralyzed with Terror and Distress 144 CHAPTER X.Homeless Refugees Relate Tales of Agonizing Horror . . . 157 CHAPTER XLChinatown Secrets Laid Bare by Disaster ......... 173 XI j^jj CONTENTS PAGE CHAPTER XII.Narrative of a Victim Surrounded by a Frantic Multitude 182 CHAPTER Xni.Cremating the Dead and Feeding tlie Livi

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  • bookpublisher:Philadelphia__Pa___National_publishing_co
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