I stood at the corner of Kearney and Market Streets in the very heart of San Francisco. 0000000950 00000 n
Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. All the shrewd contrivances and safeguards of man had been thrown out of gear by thirty seconds' twitching of the earth-crust.
It was written by Jack London and adapted for Special English by Paul Thompson. Alfred, Lord Tennyson. It was a hard night and the hills of San Francisco are steep.
Never in all San Francisco's history, were her people so kind and courteous as on this night of terror. Others carried bundles of bedding and dear household treasures.
"Yesterday morning," he said, "I was worth six hundred thousand dollars. The western American city of San Francisco, California suffered a huge earthquake on April 18th, 1906.
A feature story goes beyond “just the facts” reporting that characterizes a traditional news story; the writer often includes detailed descriptions and personal feelings. But the 1)_____ that followed burned up hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of property.
Their job was to keep the people moving away from the fire. In The Story of an Eyewitness, journalist Jack London gives readers a vivid first-person account of the terrible aftermath of the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco. The fire had passed through afterward and roasted them. The fourth side had been burned earlier in the day. He was in charge of a truck piled high with trunks from some hotel.
Nothing could be done to halt the firestorm.In the end, the fire went out by itself because there was nothing left to burn. 0000055642 00000 n
Nothing could be done. A sickly light was creeping over the face of things. Dynamite was lavishly used, and many of San Francisco proudest structures were crumbled by man himself into ruins, but there was no withstanding the onrush of the flames. An enumeration of the dead-will never be made.
It was like the meeting of the handful of survivors after the day of the end of the world.
Yet everybody was gracious. Every building had its watchman at the door. 0000006511 00000 n
Before the flames, throughout the night, fled tens of thousands of homeless ones. THE STORY OF AN EYEWITNESS: THE SAN FRANCISCO EARTHQUAKEThis article has been reproduced in a new format and may be missing content or contain faulty links. Sometimes a whole family was harnessed to a carriage or delivery wagon that was weighted down with their possessions. There was no dynamite. Remarkable as it may seem, Wednesday night while the whole city crashed and roared into ruin, was a quiet night.
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