Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror
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Fallows Samuel. Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror
PREFACE
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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A BRIGHT, intelligent unbeliever in the Providential government of the world has just said to me in discussing this greatest of calamities which has occurred in our nation’s history, “Where is your benevolent God?” I answered “He still lives and guides the affairs of men.” Another said, “The preachers would do well not to meddle with the subject.” But the reply was made, “It is precisely the subject with which they, more than others, should concern themselves.”
It is for them, when the hearts of men are failing to confidently proclaim that God has not abdicated his throne, and that man is not the sport of malign and lawless forces.
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The famous Mills building and the new Merchants Exchange were still standing, but the Mutual Life Insurance building and scores of bank and office buildings were on fire, while blocks of other houses were in the path of the flames and nothing seemed to be at hand to stay their progress.
Nearly every big factory building had been wiped out of existence and a complete enumeration of them would look like a copy of the city directory.
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