Download or read book Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror written by Richard Linthicum and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror written by Richard Linthicum and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Complete Story of the San Francisco Earthquake written by Marshall Everett and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Complete Story of the San Francisco Earthquake written by Marshall Everett and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Complete Story of the San Francisco Earthquake written by Marshall Everett and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Disaster by the Bay written by Harry Paul Jeffers and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A colorful city -- eighth largest in the country -- reduced to rubble by a massive earthquake and then consumed by flames... In this vivid, fast-paced chronicle of what has been called the worst peacetime disaster to ever befall America, veteran journalist and author H. Paul Jeffers provides a gripping account of the nightmarish days in April 1906 when earthquake and fire devastated San Francisco. Drawing on a wide range of eyewitness material, Jeffers follows a variety of individuals as they come to terms with an unthinkable event. Celebrities like Enrico Caruso and John Barrymore; the civil and military authorities who tried to bring order out of the chaos; merchants who struggled heroically to save their shops and goods from the ruins and the flames; the suddenly homeless ordinary men and women who composed messages on scraps of paper and sticks of wood (all of which, incredibly, the postal service actually delivered) to tell of their survival: from all these and many other perspectives Jeffers creates a riveting mosaic of catastrophe and its aftermath. With the one-hundredth anniversary of the quake approaching, this skillful and engrossing narrative will be of keen interest to readers from west coast to east. Book jacket.
Download or read book I Survived the San Francisco Earthquake 1906 I Survived 5 written by Lauren Tarshis and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The terrifying details of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake jump off the page!Ten-year-old Leo loves being a newsboy in San Francisco -- not only does he get to make some money to help his family, he's free to explore the amazing, hilly city as it changes and grows with the new century. Horse-drawn carriages share the streets with shiny new automobiles, new businesses and families move in every day from everywhere, and anything seems possible.But early one spring morning, everything changes. Leo's world is shaken -- literally -- and he finds himself stranded in the middle of San Francisco as it crumbles and burns to the ground. Does Leo have what it takes to survive this devastating disaster?The I SURVIVED series continues with another thrilling story of a boy caught in one of history's most terrifying disasters!
Download or read book The Picture Story of the San Francisco Earthquake Wednesday April 18 1906 written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror written by Richard Linthicum and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-24 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This history of the San Francisco Earthquake Horror and Conflagration ... is the most complete and authentic history of the great disaster published." -PrefaceA great amount of space has been devoted to "Thrilling Personal Experiences" so that the reader has a thousand and one phases of the hardships endured by those who passed through the awful experience of the earthquake shock and the ordeal of the conflagration. Richard Linthicum (1859-1934) was a well-known author and newspaper man, formerly the editor the Chicago Times-Herald, he later served on the editorial staff of the New York World. The name and works of Richard Linthicum were known in every household in the United States where current history was read. In 1906 he published "Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror."
Download or read book Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror 1906 written by and published by Book Tree. This book was released on 2003-01-02 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today there is no one left alive who experienced the great San Francisco quake in in 1906. That is why it is important to tell the story. Many recall the terrible quake there in 1989, which caused a rupture in the earth of 25 miles and measured about 7.0 on the Richter scale. The 1906 quake had a rupture of 290 miles and was estimated at 7.8 and, by some, up to 8.3 on the Richter scale. It released 16 times the amount of energy as the 1989 quake (at a minimum). It boggles the mind to imagine what it was like near the epicenter. This is the story of what it was liketold by the survivors, rescuers and eyewitnesses to the immense power, and terror, that was unleashed on that day.
Download or read book The Great Earthquake and Firestorms of 1906 written by Philip L. Fradkin and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this well-researched book, Fradkin contends that it was the people of San Francisco, not the forces of nature, who were responsible for the extent of the destruction and death."--"Booklist."
Download or read book Disaster written by Dan Kurzman and published by Harper Perennial. This book was released on 2002-04-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The George Polk Memorial Award-winning historian investigates the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, bringing to life this horrible natural disaster--registering 8.3 on the Richter scale--and the subsequent fire that raged through the rubble killing ten thousand people. Reprint.
Download or read book Complete Story of the San Francisco Earthquake the Eruption of Mount Vesuvius and Other Volcanic Outbursts and Earthquakes Including All the Great D written by Marshall Everett and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Download or read book San Francisco is Burning written by Dennis Smith and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 2005 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "At 5:12 A.M. on the morning of April 18, 1906, San Francisco was struck by one of the worst earthquakes ever recorded, a disaster that instantly killed hundreds and leveled large sections of the city. The quake has become a watershed event in American history, yet with the passage of time its drama has overshadowed the even greater calamity to which it gave rise: the fires that broke out as the result of toppling chimneys, broken flues, and severed gas lines. These blazes burned for days and were ultimately responsible for the deaths of as many as three thousand people, the destruction of more than five hundred blocks and twenty-eight thousand buildings, and the dislocation of some two hundred thousand residents." "In San Francisco Is Burning, Dennis Smith recounts the three terrible days of the tragedy with an almost cinematic immediacy, tracing the drama through the experiences of a number of people who lived it: a valiant naval officer who helped save the city's piers and wharves, the corrupt mayor, a firefighter who witnessed firsthand the staggering intensity of the fires, a woman who ran a shelter in Chinatown, and the army general who took command of the city and inadvertently placed the city and its people at even greater risk." "Above all, San Francisco Is Burning is a compelling and timely account of how a city copes with catastrophe - how it prepares for such contingencies and how effectively it deals with them when they occur. Smith reveals how San Francisco's corrupt municipal government had paid little heed to the warnings of its fire chief about the inadequacies of the public water system, a failing that would leave the city particularly vulnerable to spreading blazes. Once the fires began, a number of decisions made by the emergency leadership not only proved ineffective hut actually exacerbated the situation. Dynamiting to create firebreaks became, in the hands of amateurs, a dangerous incendiary, while the enforced evacuation of many of the city's neighborhoods deprived them of a volunteer fire brigade, desperate to save their own homes. But the most drastic measure - the declaration of martial law and posting of militia with shoot-to-kill orders against looters - turned out to be the most damaging of all as it led to senseless deaths and the demoralizing of an already overwhelmed populace."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book The Story of the Great Disaster written by Wilbur Gleason Zeigler and published by The Paragon Agency. This book was released on 2006-03 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The San Francisco Earthquake written by Gordon Thomas and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “gripping, can’t-put-it-down” chronicle, drawing on eyewitness reports and historical documents, by the New York Times–bestselling authors of Enola Gay (Los Angeles Herald Examiner). It happened at 5:13 a.m. on April 18, 1906, in San Francisco. To this day, it remains one of the worst natural disasters in American history—and this definitive book brings the full story to vivid life. Using previously unpublished documents from insurance companies, the military, and the Red Cross, as well as the stories of those who were there, The San Francisco Earthquake exposes villains and heroes; shows how the political powers tried to conceal the amount of damage caused by the earthquake; reveals how efforts to contain the fire actually spread it instead; and tells how the military executed people without trial. It also features personal stories of people who experienced it firsthand, including the great Italian tenor Enrico Caruso, the banker Amadeo Giannini, the writer-adventurer Jack London, the temperamental star John Barrymore, and the thousands of less famous in their struggle for survival. From the authors of The Day the Bubble Burst, The San Francisco Earthquake is an important look at how the city has handled catastrophe in the past—and how it may handle it in the future.
Download or read book Quake written by Gail Langer Karwoski and published by Holiday House. This book was released on 2011-05-17 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A boy and his dog navigate dangerous rubble, prejudices, and survival in this riveting fictional account of the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906. It's before daybreak in San Francisco on April 18, 1906. Mourning the loss of his mother, thirteen-year-old Jacob Kaufman slips out of the cramped boarding house where he lives with his immigrant father and little sister Rosie. Why couldn't Papa just let him keep the stray dog—the one thing that has made him happy in months? But he forgets all his frustrations when the ground beneath his feet begins to rumble. Buildings collapse, and the street splits wide open as Jacob runs for safety from a devastating earthquake. With just his dog, he embarks on a perilous search for shelter, food and water, and missing loved ones while grappling with his Jewish traditions and fighting prejudices against a new Chinese friend. In Gail Langer Karwoski's stirring fictional account of the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906, young readers will relive the drama of the actual event and its devastating aftermath. An author's note carefully separates fact from fiction, giving young readers a glimpse into one of the worst earthquakes in modern history.
