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Identifier: historyofsanfran00bank (find matches)
Title: The history of the San Francisco disaster and Mount Vesuvius horror
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Banks, Charles Eugene, 1852-1932 Read, Opie Percival, 1852-1939
Subjects: Volcanoes Volcanoes Earthquakes
Publisher: (Chicago, Ill. : Thompson & Thomas)
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
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rown over a precipitous declivity several hundredfeet high, and then swept three miles down onto theplain in as many minutes. In this catastrophe tenhouses, thirty-one souls and 500 head of cattle wereoverwhelmed in twenty to forty feet of mud. Notone of the unfortunates was ever recovered. Thisdeluge of pasty earth was half a mile wide. About the same time a tidal wave swept the wholesouth shore. The crest of the immense billow was ashigh as the tops of the trees, and as it surged inlandand back again to the ocean, it carried away 108thatched houses of the Kanakas and forty-six nativeswere drowned. And now the strangest phenomenontook place in Kilauea. The floor of a large part ofthe crater gave way, falling several hundred feet, andthe eternal fires nearly all disappeared. Our vol-canologists claim that the lava flowed by the subter-ranean fissure mentioned above, as a hadean under-ground river, to the point of the next outbreak in Ka-u. During all this time the earth tremblings had
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Sarah Bernhardt as she appeared at the great tent benefit.Julia Marlowe. Sarah Bernhardt as Adrienne Lecouvre. These great artists appeared at the benefit for the San Francisco peoplein the famous Bernhardt Tent in which she starred through Texas Theperformance netted $15,605.

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