San Francisco's Horror of Earthquake Fire and Famine

"San Francisco's Horror of EARTHQUAKE AND FIRE" compiled from stories told by eye witnesses of these frightful scenes by James Russell Wilson. 1906; G.W. Bertron; Washington, D.C. The book features numerous full-page photographs, maps and illustrations, marbled end papers, and marbled page edges on all sides. "Terrible devastation and heart-rending scenes. Immense loss of life and hundreds of millions of property destroyed. The most appalling disaster of modern times. Containing a vivid description of this overwhelming calamity - suddenness of the blow - great number of victims - fall of great buildings - thousands driven from their homes. This unparalleled catastrophe leaves San Francisco a heap of smoldering ruins - fierce flames sweep the doomed city - beautiful buildings in ashes. To which is added graphic accounts of the eruptions of Vesuvius and many other volcanoes, explaining the causes of volcanic eruptions and earthquakes."

Here are a few examples of the contents: Pitiful Scenes Where Once Stood a Great City; Famine and and Pestilence Follow Earthquake and Fire; Heroism of Brave Men Fighting for Life; Homeless Refugees Relate Tales of Agonizing Horror; The Doomed Metropolis a Mass of Smoldering Ruins; Cremating the Dead and Feeding the Living; Harrowing Incidents Related by Survivors; Great Volcanic Eruptions in Many Parts of the World - Story of Mount Etna; Torrents of Steam Escaping from Craters; Volcanic Projectiles; The Pacific "Circle of Fire"; Flashes and Flames Proceeding from Volcanoes...and much more - please see the photos for the complete list.