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Identifier: historyofsanfran00bank (find matches)
Title: The history of the San Francisco disaster and Mount Vesuvius horror
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Banks, Charles Eugene, 1852-1932 Read, Opie Percival, 1852-1939
Subjects: Volcanoes Volcanoes Earthquakes
Publisher: (Chicago, Ill. : Thompson & Thomas)
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
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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 hope.Block 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 leajthe conflagration <?prpax1Jnn dozen directions and rap-icyva_te_jts_way_uito thejr^sideirc€--digtficts. 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 too

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