. The history of the San Francisco disaster and Mount Vesuvius horror . THE SAN FRANCISCO DISASTER 41 its progress. The awful bombardment was kept upall the day and night of Wednesday and until Thurs-day evening. Then the supply of explosives wasnearly exhausted. The government arsenals had beenemptied of their stocks and quantities hurried in fromother cities had been used in vain. It was evident that practically the entire city wasdoomed and even the most sanguine then gave up after block of great office buildings, hotels, thea-ters, factories and warehouses melted away like waxin
. The history of the San Francisco disaster and Mount Vesuvius horror . THE SAN FRANCISCO DISASTER 41 its progress. The awful bombardment was kept upall the day and night of Wednesday and until Thurs-day evening. Then the supply of explosives wasnearly exhausted. The government arsenals had beenemptied of their stocks and quantities hurried in fromother cities had been used in vain. It was evident that practically the entire city wasdoomed and even the most sanguine then gave up after block of great office buildings, hotels, thea-ters, factories and warehouses melted away like waxin the terrific heat. All the quaint foreign quartersturned to ashes in a few minutes. With mighty leapsthe conflagration spread in a dozen directions and rap-idly ate its way into the residence districts. Palatialhouses on -Nob Hill, and other high portions of thecity were swallowed in the maelstrom of fire. Onlythe more sparsely settled outlying districts were saved. Fire Chief Sullivan was fatally hurt by the earth-quake shock, and Assistant Chief Dougherty took upt
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