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Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror
Complete Story of the San Francisco Earthquake
Disaster by the Bay
Author: Harry Paul Jeffers
Publisher:
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A colorful city -- eighth largest in the country -- reduced to rubble by a massive earthquake and then consumed by flames... In this vivid, fast-paced chronicle of what has been called the worst peacetime disaster to ever befall America, veteran journalist and author H. Paul Jeffers provides a gripping account of the nightmarish days in April 1906 when earthquake and fire devastated San Francisco. Drawing on a wide range of eyewitness material, Jeffers follows a variety of individuals as they come to terms with an unthinkable event. Celebrities like Enrico Caruso and John Barrymore; the civil and military authorities who tried to bring order out of the chaos; merchants who struggled heroically to save their shops and goods from the ruins and the flames; the suddenly homeless ordinary men and women who composed messages on scraps of paper and sticks of wood (all of which, incredibly, the postal service actually delivered) to tell of their survival: from all these and many other perspectives Jeffers creates a riveting mosaic of catastrophe and its aftermath. With the one-hundredth anniversary of the quake approaching, this skillful and engrossing narrative will be of keen interest to readers from west coast to east. Book jacket.
Complete Story of the San Francisco Earthquake
I Survived the San Francisco Earthquake, 1906 (I Survived #5)
Author: Lauren Tarshis
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2012-03-01
Total Pages: 86
ISBN-13: 0545392616
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The terrifying details of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake jump off the page!Ten-year-old Leo loves being a newsboy in San Francisco -- not only does he get to make some money to help his family, he's free to explore the amazing, hilly city as it changes and grows with the new century. Horse-drawn carriages share the streets with shiny new automobiles, new businesses and families move in every day from everywhere, and anything seems possible.But early one spring morning, everything changes. Leo's world is shaken -- literally -- and he finds himself stranded in the middle of San Francisco as it crumbles and burns to the ground. Does Leo have what it takes to survive this devastating disaster?The I SURVIVED series continues with another thrilling story of a boy caught in one of history's most terrifying disasters!
Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror
Author: Richard Linthicum
Publisher:
Published: 2017-07-24
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9781973881872
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"This history of the San Francisco Earthquake Horror and Conflagration ... is the most complete and authentic history of the great disaster published." -PrefaceA great amount of space has been devoted to "Thrilling Personal Experiences" so that the reader has a thousand and one phases of the hardships endured by those who passed through the awful experience of the earthquake shock and the ordeal of the conflagration. Richard Linthicum (1859-1934) was a well-known author and newspaper man, formerly the editor the Chicago Times-Herald, he later served on the editorial staff of the New York World. The name and works of Richard Linthicum were known in every household in the United States where current history was read. In 1906 he published "Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror."
Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror, 1906
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Publisher: Book Tree
Published: 2003-01-02
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781585092215
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Today there is no one left alive who experienced the great San Francisco quake in in 1906. That is why it is important to tell the story. Many recall the terrible quake there in 1989, which caused a rupture in the earth of 25 miles and measured about 7.0 on the Richter scale. The 1906 quake had a rupture of 290 miles and was estimated at 7.8 and, by some, up to 8.3 on the Richter scale. It released 16 times the amount of energy as the 1989 quake (at a minimum). It boggles the mind to imagine what it was like near the epicenter. This is the story of what it was liketold by the survivors, rescuers and eyewitnesses to the immense power, and terror, that was unleashed on that day.
The San Francisco Earthquake
Author: Gordon Thomas
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2014-07-01
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 1497658837
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A “gripping, can’t-put-it-down” chronicle, drawing on eyewitness reports and historical documents, by the New York Times–bestselling authors of Enola Gay (Los Angeles Herald Examiner). It happened at 5:13 a.m. on April 18, 1906, in San Francisco. To this day, it remains one of the worst natural disasters in American history—and this definitive book brings the full story to vivid life. Using previously unpublished documents from insurance companies, the military, and the Red Cross, as well as the stories of those who were there, The San Francisco Earthquake exposes villains and heroes; shows how the political powers tried to conceal the amount of damage caused by the earthquake; reveals how efforts to contain the fire actually spread it instead; and tells how the military executed people without trial. It also features personal stories of people who experienced it firsthand, including the great Italian tenor Enrico Caruso, the banker Amadeo Giannini, the writer-adventurer Jack London, the temperamental star John Barrymore, and the thousands of less famous in their struggle for survival. From the authors of The Day the Bubble Burst, The San Francisco Earthquake is an important look at how the city has handled catastrophe in the past—and how it may handle it in the future.
Disaster!
Author: Dan Kurzman
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 2002-04-01
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780060084325
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The George Polk Memorial Award-winning historian investigates the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, bringing to life this horrible natural disaster--registering 8.3 on the Richter scale--and the subsequent fire that raged through the rubble killing ten thousand people. Reprint.
