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Identifier: sanfranciscoshor00wils (find matches)
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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s—were few. KILLED FOR INSULTING GIRLS. Strict orders were given to the military regarding the protection ofthe weaker sex, and were carried out to the letter. In Golden Gate Park, which resembled a vast bivouac, with itsmyriad of twinkling campfires, two young girls were accosted by twomen, evidently the worse for liquor, which they had obtained in some way.The girls were dressed in hurriedly-snatched ball gowns, donned duringthe first terror of the earthquake. Scarcely had one of the men spok^^nwhen, without a word of warning, a sentry from the Presidio, who wasstanding near, fired and the man dropped, a bullet in his heart. The otherman started to run, but was brought down by a second shot and placedunder guard. All Thursday wagons mounteci with barrels and guarded by soldiersdrove through Golden Gate Park doling out water. There was always acrush about these wagons and only one drink was allowed to a person.Separate supplies were sent to the sick in the tents. The troops allowed
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First train load of supplies sent out by The Evening Telegraphfor the relief of sufferers in the stricken city.

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  • booksubject:Volcanoes___from_old_catalog_
  • bookpublisher:Philadelphia__Pa___National_publishing_co
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