. The history of the San Francisco disaster and Mount Vesuvius horror . s. Manyof the buildings in San Francisco were so badly dam-aged by this mornings shock that they are a peril towhoever enters them during the continuance of theearthquake shocks. Some time ago a message was received from theWestern Union headquarters in San Francisco thatthey would have to vacate the building because it wasto be blown up with dynamite. Immediately after thiscommunication with the office ceased, and an operatorwho volunteered to go from another office to see whatthe trouble was failed to return to his wire.
. The history of the San Francisco disaster and Mount Vesuvius horror . s. Manyof the buildings in San Francisco were so badly dam-aged by this mornings shock that they are a peril towhoever enters them during the continuance of theearthquake shocks. Some time ago a message was received from theWestern Union headquarters in San Francisco thatthey would have to vacate the building because it wasto be blown up with dynamite. Immediately after thiscommunication with the office ceased, and an operatorwho volunteered to go from another office to see whatthe trouble was failed to return to his wire. Com- 112 THE SAN FRANCISCO DISASTER munication was also interrupted with the ferry-housein which the Western Union established wires, andfrom Oakland it appeared that the ferry-house had beendamaged by a dynamite explosion. All the letters and dispatches out of the city werefilled with a curious mixture of comedy and tragedy,showing the intellect of the survivors to be tried tothe verge of collapse. It was days before they re-sumed a normal attitude toward CHINATOWN, SAN FRANCISCO. Many of the buildings were wood, with oriental fixings, which madethem burn like tinder. In fact the inhabitants barely escaped withtheir lives.
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