. The Open court. 400 THE OPEN COURT. in widely separated regions. This fact is brought out clearly in theletters. A wave in the earth might be undulating in one place,while in another sharp beats, thumps and twists were in violentactivity. Landslides down the mountains, and into the sea wouldobtain here and there, while the surface was rising burst forth in places and ceased to flow in others. Bluelights appeared in a number of localities dancing over land as wellas water. Their appearance and colors were like those of staticelectricity escaping from the terminals of electri
. The Open court. 400 THE OPEN COURT. in widely separated regions. This fact is brought out clearly in theletters. A wave in the earth might be undulating in one place,while in another sharp beats, thumps and twists were in violentactivity. Landslides down the mountains, and into the sea wouldobtain here and there, while the surface was rising burst forth in places and ceased to flow in others. Bluelights appeared in a number of localities dancing over land as wellas water. Their appearance and colors were like those of staticelectricity escaping from the terminals of electric influence escaped from the soil and sea, having pungent sulphurousodors. Subterranean sounds as of rolling carriage wheels over plankbridges, and of deep rumblings and reverberations were heard inN. No. 3- April i8, 1905, 5:i5 A. M. - No. 4. April 25, 1906, 3--I7 P- TAKEN AT THE VETERANS HOME^ NAPA COUNTY, CAL, many places, not only on April 18, the day of the upheaval, but onthe 17th. Many persons have written me from several directions fromthe stricken city, saying that they and many others heard masked andmuffled sounds from deep within the earth, and also concussions ofexplosive violence. One of the most vivid, awe-inspiring and im-pressive facts derived from these letters, and from conversationswith many while in San Francisco, and from letters written in thecity limits, is this: the people in the city did not hear subterraneansounds. But the awful reason why was because of the terrible roarroundabout, from seething flames, tumbling walls, the crashing ofglass and the hissing of sliding rasping miles of wires. The litera-ture of earthquakes does not present a more striking and startling THE GREAT SAN FRANCISCO EARTHQUAKE. 4OI fact, for the roaring of the city,
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