Happiness In San Francisco Disaster In San Diego And Other Sherwood Family Stories

Author : Charles Morris
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780656516360
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (163 download)

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Download or read book The San Francisco Calamity, by Earthquake and Fire written by Charles Morris and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-14 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The San Francisco Calamity, by Earthquake and Fire: A Complete and Accurate Account of the Fearful Disaster Which Visited the Great City and the Pacific Coast, the Reign of Panic and Lawlessness, the Plight of 300, 000 Homeless People and the World-Wide Rush to the Rescue, Including Graphic and Reliable Ac Dreadful is the work that follows the clashing of sinking seas with the lakes of liquid fire pent tip in the earth. Rack and ruin attend their meeting, and the dense solid shell of the earth is rent asunder by their might. It is to the battle of fire and water in the depths of the rocks that the volcano and the earthquake are due, and when these demons of the depths are at war man's puny strength is as powerless as that of the leaf before the cyclone. Then terror comes; then the earth trembles to its heart and is rent in twain; then the ashes of a terrible burning are cast forth to bury fertile plains and flourishing cities; then showers of burning rocks bombard the air and rivers of glowing lava scorch the earth, and human hopes and the results of man's labor are whelmed alike beneath the dread torrent of death and dismay. Earthquake and famine, fire and sudden death - these are the destroyers that men fear when they come singly how much worse is it when they come together, as they did upon the stricken people of Sicily and Calabria in the recent terrible catastrophe, a hideous quartette whose mission was the death or torment of human beings, the destruction in a moment's time of the wealth they had gathered in years of patient effort. It is the purpose of this book to make a faithful record of the story of that awful hour of ruin when years seemed lived in a minute, and to preserve an accurate chronicle of its events, alike for the people whose hearts throb in sympathy to-day and for the benefit of their posterity. Other frightful cataclysms the world has known. The earth quake which dropped the greater part of the city of Lisbon into the sea in 175 5, and in a moment swallowed up twenty-five thousand of its people; the convulsion which rent Krakatoa Island asunder in 1883, and poured on the coast of Java a tidal wave in which thirty six thousand human beings perished; the whirlwind of fire which in 1902 overwhelmed St. Pierre in Martinique, with its thirty thou sand inhabitants; the earthquake which in 1906 ruined in a moment of time the thronged city of San Francisco, are all significant examples. The earth we live upon is never safe beneath our feet. It may quake and lift into billows at a moment's notice; it may pour forth volumes. Of fire from the molten lakes which lie in its depths heedless as we are of all this we are never for a moment safe from some such convulsion of nature. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.