English: "GREAT BUILDINGS FALL PREY TO FLAMES. Conflagration Seizing Palace Hotel, Merchant's Exchange, Call, Chronicle and Crocker Buildings and St. Francis Hotel"

Identifier: historyofsanfran00bank (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: Volcanoes Volcanoes Earthquakes
Publisher: (Chicago, Ill. : Thompson & Thomas)
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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uilding upon the beautiful bay a greaterand more magnificent city. The authors wish to acknowledge the great debt ofgratitude they are under to the officials in charge atSan Francisco, the press and telegraph, as well as thecourtesy of hundreds of individuals who assisted inthe gathering of information to make this book com-plete and accurate. Other writers besides those givencredit in the text, who have lent great assistance, areMr. Charles Ulrich, Mr. Edward W. Pickard, and Mr.Samuel C. Andrews, the latter having passed a largepart of his life among the great volcanoes. To tell the correct story of the great earthquake hasnot been all our ambition, but to incorporate in thesepages the sublime spirit of America. It is not alonethe cities of the United States that give utterance tothe spirit of idealism that is making the nation great.It is in the farm and the garden as well as the mill, thestore and workshop. It is this spirit that will rebuildand beautify San Francisco. THE AUTHORS.
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