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Title: The Open court
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Carus, Paul, 1852-1919 Open Court Publishing company, Chicago
Subjects: Religion Religion and science
Publisher: Chicago : The Open Court Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Morris Library, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Digitizing Sponsor: CARLI: Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois

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and docks,soon lost attraction for me. Close at hand was a moving thing of pain, a struggling, toil-ing, living object, and has history anything to surpass what I gazedupon during four hours? THE GREAT SAN FRANCISCO EARTHQUAKE. 397 This most remarkable and new historic object was the intermin-able procession of escaping thousands of people from the peninsulaof San Francisco. Thousands upon thousands were moving slowlyand painfully towards the ferry boats leading across the bay toOakland. A hundred thousand poured into that city, Berkeley andAlameda. My objective point was the cemetery, four miles away. It tookfour hours to walk this distance over almost impossible debris. Theentire distance was occupied by the long drawn column of frenziedpeople. Babel was eclipsed, and the confusion of tongues moreconfounded. An incredible number of languages was heard. Theworld was represented in varying speech; and the nations, races,types, and kindreds of the earth were in a marvelous review. The
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AND ITS SURROUNDINGS. linguist, anthropologist, and mentalist, all students of human nature,had a wonderful opportunity there in the sorrowful way. Thepeople saved their living creatures. Canary birds, parrots, pet rab-bits, puppies, squirrels, guinea-pigs, all household pets, were car-ried by those scarcely strong enough to drag themselves along.This was one of the most pathetic scenes in the ruins. And thenthe dollies; little girls toiled along with dolls that required theirstrength to carry. But the living dolls, the babies, suffered in thelime-dust cutting and biting in their tiny eyes. And poor, sobbingmothers struggled over hot bricks, acres of broken window glass,twisted columns, beams and girders of iron; and then the sticky 398 THE OPEN COURT. asphalt pavements contained nails, spikes, bolts, broken glass dishes,crockery, chinaware, and sharp fragments of stones. But the wilderness of tangled wires was simply unendurable.How they tripped and fell, with their feet enmeshed in

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