CALIFORNIA: SAN FRANCISCO THE COMPLETE STORY OF THE SAN FRANCISCO HORROR. CD-WIN/MACA description of the book says that this is 'a comprehensive and connected account of the terrible tragedy that befell the people of our Golden City - the Metropolis of the Golden Gate, and the death and ruin dealt many adjacent cities and surrounding country. Destroying earthquake comes without warning, in the early hours of the morning; immense structures topple and crumble, Great Leland University succumbs; water mains demolished and fire completes devastation. Fighting fire with dynamite.' Illustrated with lots of photographs taken at the time, 1906.
Table of Contents - The Doomed City.
- San Francisco A Roaring Furnace
- Third Day Adds to Horror
- Twenty Square Miles of Wreck and Ruin
- The City of a Hundred Hills
- Scenes of Terror, Death, and Heroism
- Thrilling Personal Experiences
- Thrilling Personal Experiences - Continued
- Through Lanes of Misery
- Whole Nation Responds With Aid
- All Co-operate in Relief Work
- Our Boys in Blue Prove Heroism
- In the Refuge Camps
- Ruins and Havoc in Coast Cities
- Destruction of Great Stanford University
- Fighting Fire with Dynamite
- Miscellaneous Facts and Incidents
- Disaster as Viewed By Scientists
- Chinatown, A Plague Spot Blotted Out
- The New San Francisco
- Vesuvius Threatens Naples
- Scenes In Frightened Naples
- Volcanoes and Earthquakes Explained
- Terrible Volcanic Disasters of the Past
- Vesuvius and the Destruction of Pompeii
- Mount Aetna and the Sicilian Horrors
- Lisbon Earthquake Scourged
- Japan and its Disastrous Earthquakes and Volcanoes
- Krakatoa, The Greatest of Volcanic Explosions
- Our Great Hawaiian and Alaskan Volcanoes
- South America Cities Destroyed
- Earthquakes and Volcanoes in Central America and Mexico
- Charleston, Galveston, Johnstown -- Our American Disasters
- St. Pierre, Martinique, Annihilated by a Volcano
This CD consists of high quality scanned images of the whole of the original book. It can be viewed by any computer using Adobe Acrobat Reader (version 4 or later recommended). The data on this CD is completely self-contained, and requires no installation. This CD book has been formatted to be searchable using Adobe Acrobat Reader, you cannot however, print from this CD. System Requirements: Windows, Macintosh, or Unix system, CD-ROM drive, Adobe Acrobat version 4 (or later).
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| Item Number: | 113-US0126 |
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CD-WIN/MAC
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(1906) 2005
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1845941888
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Archive CD Books
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| List Price: | 17.95 |
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$16.77
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