Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror

About this eBook

Author

White, Trumbull, 1868-1941

Credits

Produced by Suzanne Shell, Sam W. and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

LoC Class

F850.5: United States local history: Pacific States

Subject

Disasters

Category

Text

eBook-No.

26380

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26380

Release Date

August 21, 2008

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.COMPLETE STORY OF THE San Francisco Horror
2. 2.PREFACE
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.ILLUSTRATIONS
5. 5.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.
6. 6.CHAPTER I. — THE DOOMED CITY.
7. 7.CHAPTER II. — SAN FRANCISCO A ROARING FURNACE.
8. 8.CHAPTER III. — THIRD DAY ADDS TO HORROR.
9. 9.CHAPTER IV. — TWENTY SQUARE MILES OF WRECK AND RUIN.
10. 10.CHAPTER V. — THE CITY OF A HUNDRED HILLS.
11. 11.CHAPTER VI. — SCENES OF TERROR, DEATH AND HEROISM.
12. 12.CHAPTER VII. — THRILLING PERSONAL EXPERIENCES.
13. 13.CHAPTER VIII. — THRILLING PERSONAL EXPERIENCES—CONTINUED.
14. 14.CHAPTER IX. — THROUGH LANES OF MISERY.
15. 15.CHAPTER X. — WHOLE NATION RESPONDS WITH AID.
16. 16.CHAPTER XI. — ALL CO-OPERATE IN RELIEF WORK.
17. 17.CHAPTER XII. — OUR BOYS IN BLUE PROVE HEROISM.
18. 18.CHAPTER XIII. — IN THE REFUGE CAMPS.
19. 19.CHAPTER XIV. — RUINS AND HAVOC IN COAST CITIES.
20. 20.CHAPTER XV. — DESTRUCTION OF GREAT STANFORD UNIVERSITY.
21. 21.CHAPTER XVI. — FIGHTING FIRE WITH DYNAMITE.
22. 22.CHAPTER XVII. — MISCELLANEOUS FACTS AND INCIDENTS.
23. 23.CHAPTER XVIII. — DISASTER AS VIEWED BY SCIENTISTS.
24. 24.CHAPTER XIX. — CHINATOWN, A PLAGUE SPOT BLOTTED OUT.
25. 25.CHAPTER XX. — THE NEW SAN FRANCISCO.
26. 26.CHAPTER XXI. — VESUVIUS THREATENS NAPLES.
27. 27.CHAPTER XXII. — SCENES IN FRIGHTENED NAPLES.
28. 28.CHAPTER XXIII. — VOLCANOES AND EARTHQUAKES EXPLAINED.
29. 29.CHAPTER XXIV. — TERRIBLE VOLCANIC DISASTERS OF THE PAST.
30. 30.CHAPTER XXV. — VESUVIUS AND THE DESTRUCTION OF POMPEII.
31. 31.CHAPTER XXVI. — MOUNT ÆTNA AND THE SICILIAN HORRORS.
32. 32.CHAPTER XXVII. — LISBON EARTHQUAKE SCOURGED.
33. 33.CHAPTER XXVIII. — JAPAN AND ITS DISASTROUS EARTHQUAKES AND VOLCANOES.
34. 34.CHAPTER XXIX. — KRAKATOA, THE GREATEST OF VOLCANIC EXPLOSIONS.
35. 35.CHAPTER XXX. — OUR GREAT HAWAIIAN AND ALASKAN VOLCANOES.
36. 36.CHAPTER XXXI. — SOUTH AMERICAN CITIES DESTROYED.
37. 37.CHAPTER XXXII. — EARTHQUAKES AND VOLCANOES IN CENTRAL AMERICA AND MEXICO.
38. 38.CHAPTER XXXIII. — CHARLESTON, GALVESTON, JOHNSTOWN—OUR AMERICAN DISASTERS.
39. 39.CHAPTER XXXIV. — ST. PIERRE, MARTINIQUE, ANNIHILATED BY A VOLCANO.

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