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
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
es from some of the heaviest explosions were car-ried around the world (25,000 miles) as many as foursuccessive times. This fact was indicated by the rec-ords of many delicate meteorological instruments ofthe astronomical stations in America, Europe andIndia. A cone of Krakatoa, three thousand feet high, wassplit in two, leaving a precipice jutting onto the ocean.At the same time the bed of the sea in the Straits ofSunda sank 900 feet at some points. A part of Kra-katoa Island sank 1,700 feet. The volcano was torninto fragments by the explosions and the missing por-tion (estimated at 200 billion cubic feet) disappeared.Whether it was blown off into space in the form ofcosmic dust, or sank into the bowels of the earth isstill a mystery. Simultaneously with the explosions of the 26th and27th, enormous tidal waves wrere raised, ranging, asestimated, from 50 to 135 feet high. A very accuratemeasurement of one of them was ^2 feet above hightide limits. The man of war Berouw was carried in-
Text Appearing After Image:
v .^ CD—I - bfl •S* 02 ?, Q- fi £) V m CO < Sj-M +3 <D £ to $-.Z a a -J3 8 < CD C3 I a ?-bfl• Z X» CD > ^H : «> 2« •5 O £ i <8; bfl _ o o ? hi- C ; E-5 «(• Has ■ OQ S

Note About Images