San Francisco water . - SAN FRANCISCO WATER August, 1929. The placid lake—the San Mateo hills—the storm-beaten tree—in this settingHermann Schussler is remembered street rattled thousands of wagons and car-riages, and horsemen dashed rapidly hereand there. Dense crowds lined the wharves,-hills and all points of vantage and craftsloaded with sightseers covered the bay. Sev-eral fights took place on Telegraph hillamong the roughs, but no particular damagewas done. The blast was set off at five minutes pasttwo , August 23, 1870. A large circu-lar volume of water about 400 feet in diame-ter sh
San Francisco water . - SAN FRANCISCO WATER August, 1929. The placid lake—the San Mateo hills—the storm-beaten tree—in this settingHermann Schussler is remembered street rattled thousands of wagons and car-riages, and horsemen dashed rapidly hereand there. Dense crowds lined the wharves,-hills and all points of vantage and craftsloaded with sightseers covered the bay. Sev-eral fights took place on Telegraph hillamong the roughs, but no particular damagewas done. The blast was set off at five minutes pasttwo , August 23, 1870. A large circu-lar volume of water about 400 feet in diame-ter shot into the air to the height of about 100feet, while in the center and amalgamatedwith the water could be seen black volumesof smoke and a sheet of stones, the latterascending far above the water and presentingon the whole the appearance of a vast vol-canic eruption. Immediately after the ex-plosion every steamer and tugboat blew theirwhistles and dipped their colors. Bells wererung, guns fired and a general feeling of de-light and admiration sei
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