ENGLISH

The San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906

By Louise Chipley Slavicek

Book information

Publisher
Chelsea House Publications
Year
2008
ISBN
0791096505, 9780791096505, 9781438118161
LCC
F869.S357 S537 2008
Open Library ID
OL11149652M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
8 MB (8369566 bytes)
Series
Great Historic Disasters
Edition
1
Pages
129\129
Topic
History
Library
avaxhome.ws
Time added
2010-05-31 15:29:46
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Description

At approximately 5:12 a.m. on April 18, 1906, a powerful earthquake ripped through the city of San Francisco. Roadways rose and fell like ocean waves. Crumbling walls and chimneys rained glass and bricks onto sidewalks and streets, and crowded rooming houses suddenly vanished into heaps of splintered wood. Yet San Francisco's ordeal had only begun. The violent trembling of the ground had hardly stilled when dozens of fires sparked by damaged chimneys and severed gas lines ignited throughout the stricken city. By April 21st, the fires were finally brought under control, but the city had lost nearly 30,000 buildings to the earthquake and ensuing blazes, half of its population was homeless, and some 3,000 were dead. Until Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast in 2005, the San Francisco calamity of 1906 was the worst natural disaster in U.S. history.

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