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Identifier: historyofsanfra00bank (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: San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906 Volcanoes Fires
Publisher: (Chicago? Ill. : s.n.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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THE MEN AT THE HEAD OF THE RELIEF COMMITTEES. President Roosevelt, Mayor Schmitz of San Francisco, Mayor Dunne ofChicago. D. R. Forgan and J. E. Phelan of San Francisco, Treasurers. Mr.Phelan, although losing several millions by the calamity, contributed $1,000,000,the largest individual amount subscribed. THE SAN FRANCISCO DISASTER 343 paper and destroying scores of persons who had lin-gered in the hope of saving their prized possessionsfrom the insatiable destroyer. Another stream reachedthe outskirts of Torre del Greco, laying waste thou-sands of acres of farm land and destroying much stockand implements of husbandry. Meanwhile, the inhabitants of the threatened townswere fleeing to Naples in crowds, terror-stricken anddespairing. Thousands of once happy and prosperousvillagers and peasants, compelled to leave behind allthey could not conveniently carry or place in wagons,fled before the fiery avenger with lagging footsteps, asif hopeful that the convulsion might cease and they bea

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  • booksubject:San_Francisco_Earthquake_and_Fire__Calif___1906
  • booksubject:Volcanoes
  • booksubject:Fires
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  • bookcontributor:The_Library_of_Congress
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  • bookleafnumber:347
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