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Fallows Samuel. Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror
Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror
Table of Contents
ILLUSTRATIONS
INTRODUCTION
A Divine Providence
Man the Conqueror
Wickedness not the Cause of Destruction
The Unity of Humanity
Recovery from Earthquakes
San Francisco will be Rebuilt
CHAPTER I
THE DOOMED CITY
CHAPTER II
SAN FRANCISCO A ROARING FURNACE
CHAPTER III
THIRD DAY ADDS TO HORROR
CHAPTER IV
TWENTY SQUARE MILES OF WRECK AND RUIN
CHAPTER V
THE CITY OF A HUNDRED HILLS
CHAPTER VI
SCENES OF TERROR, DEATH AND HEROISM
CHAPTER VII
THRILLING PERSONAL EXPERIENCES
CHAPTER VIII
THRILLING PERSONAL EXPERIENCES—CONTINUED
CHAPTER IX
THROUGH LANES OF MISERY
CHAPTER X
WHOLE NATION RESPONDS WITH AID
CHAPTER XI
ALL CO-OPERATE IN RELIEF WORK
CHAPTER XII
OUR BOYS IN BLUE PROVE HEROISM
CHAPTER XIII
IN THE REFUGE CAMPS
CHAPTER XIV
RUINS AND HAVOC IN COAST CITIES
CHAPTER XV
DESTRUCTION OF GREAT STANFORD UNIVERSITY
CHAPTER XVI
FIGHTING FIRE WITH DYNAMITE
CHAPTER XVII
MISCELLANEOUS FACTS AND INCIDENTS
CHAPTER XVIII
DISASTER AS VIEWED BY SCIENTISTS
CHAPTER XIX
CHINATOWN, A PLAGUE SPOT BLOTTED OUT
CHAPTER XX
THE NEW SAN FRANCISCO
CHAPTER XXI
VESUVIUS THREATENS NAPLES
CHAPTER XXII
SCENES IN FRIGHTENED NAPLES
CHAPTER XXIII
VOLCANOES AND EARTHQUAKES EXPLAINED
CHAPTER XXIV
TERRIBLE VOLCANIC DISASTERS OF THE PAST
CHAPTER XXV
VESUVIUS AND THE DESTRUCTION OF POMPEII
CHAPTER XXVI
MOUNT ÆTNA AND THE SICILIAN HORRORS
CHAPTER XXVII
LISBON EARTHQUAKE SCOURGED
CHAPTER XXVIII
JAPAN AND ITS DISASTROUS EARTHQUAKES AND VOLCANOES
CHAPTER XXIX
KRAKATOA, THE GREATEST OF VOLCANIC EXPLOSIONS
CHAPTER XXX
OUR GREAT HAWAIIAN AND ALASKAN VOLCANOES
CHAPTER XXXI
SOUTH AMERICAN CITIES DESTROYED
CHAPTER XXXII
EARTHQUAKES AND VOLCANOES IN CENTRAL AMERICA AND MEXICO
CHAPTER XXXIII
CHARLESTON, GALVESTON, JOHNSTOWN—OUR AMERICAN DISASTERS
CHAPTER XXXIV
ST. PIERRE, MARTINIQUE, ANNIHILATED BY A VOLCANO
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Samuel Fallows, Richard Linthicum, Trumbull White
Published by Good Press, 2019
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The Grand Opera House, where the Metropolitan Opera Company opened a two weeks’ engagement the previous Monday night, was one of the oldest theaters in San Francisco. It was located on Mission street between Third and Fourth streets and for a number of years was the leading playhouse of the city.
In 1885 when business began to move off of Mission street and to seek modern structures this playhouse was closed for some time and later devoted to vaudeville. Within the past four years, however, numerous fine buildings had been erected on Mission street and the Grand Opera house had been used by many of the leading independent theatrical companies.
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