. The history of the San Francisco disaster and Mount Vesuvius horror . CHINATOWN, SAN FRANCISCO. Many of the buildings were wood, with oriental fixings, which madethem burn like tinder. In fact the inhabitants barely escaped withtheir M < 0 o bJbr! X Tl H -M PQ o Q G n W >H u o J u ti (/) H H rj (-1 J .S W -M H o O — ffi U <u < £ 1—1 u WH CHAPTER VIII DEEDS OF HEROISM AND VALOR Personal Experiences by Survivors—How It Feels toBe Awakened by an Earthquake—A WomanWriter Makes Her Way Through the Still RockingCity—Millionaires Breakfast on the Grass Beforethe Ruins of Their P
. The history of the San Francisco disaster and Mount Vesuvius horror . CHINATOWN, SAN FRANCISCO. Many of the buildings were wood, with oriental fixings, which madethem burn like tinder. In fact the inhabitants barely escaped withtheir M < 0 o bJbr! X Tl H -M PQ o Q G n W >H u o J u ti (/) H H rj (-1 J .S W -M H o O — ffi U <u < £ 1—1 u WH CHAPTER VIII DEEDS OF HEROISM AND VALOR Personal Experiences by Survivors—How It Feels toBe Awakened by an Earthquake—A WomanWriter Makes Her Way Through the Still RockingCity—Millionaires Breakfast on the Grass Beforethe Ruins of Their Palaces—Automobiles Shriekand Toot Among the Falling Buildings. To stand clear-headed and observant while the worldseems on the verge of utter ruin, one must be eithera very great or a very depraved soul. Nero fiddledwhile Rome was burning. It was the crowning actof the worlds supreme pessimist. But the San Francisco earthquake discovered menand women actuated by the most sublime motives,who not only looked with cool judgment upon thewreck of matter and the crash of worlds, but wentdown into the seething furnace and remained on dutythere in order that the world might know somethingof what was
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