Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror

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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