. The history of the San Francisco disaster and Mount Vesuvius horror . I;-!: Copyright 1906 by The American—Journal—Examiner. THE BUSINESS DISTRICT IN FLAMES. Scene from Telegraph Hill while the conflagration was at its worst. CHAPTER I DESTRUCTION OF SAN FRANCISCO Golden Gate City Wiped Out by Earthquake and Fire—First Shock Comes in Mysterious Twilight of theDawn—Whole Population Rush Half-Clad Into theStreets to Find Themselves Helpless in the Pres-ence of Fate—Great Sky Scrapers Topple to Ruin,Burying Hundreds in the Debris—Immense Confla-gration Completes The Wreck of Matter and theCrash
. The history of the San Francisco disaster and Mount Vesuvius horror . I;-!: Copyright 1906 by The American—Journal—Examiner. THE BUSINESS DISTRICT IN FLAMES. Scene from Telegraph Hill while the conflagration was at its worst. CHAPTER I DESTRUCTION OF SAN FRANCISCO Golden Gate City Wiped Out by Earthquake and Fire—First Shock Comes in Mysterious Twilight of theDawn—Whole Population Rush Half-Clad Into theStreets to Find Themselves Helpless in the Pres-ence of Fate—Great Sky Scrapers Topple to Ruin,Burying Hundreds in the Debris—Immense Confla-gration Completes The Wreck of Matter and theCrash of Worlds —The Most Beautiful and His-toric City of America Swept Into Oblivion. On the morning of April 18, 1906, at 5:13 oclock,San Francisco felt the first tremors of an earthquakeshock that was destined to destroy the entire city. In that mysterious hour of twilight that precedes thedawn of a new day the earth under the city heavedand rocked like a troubled sea. Out of the deep sleep of the hour nearly four hun-dred thousand people awoke to see the
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