Disaster!
the great San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906
by Dan Kurzman
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"Just after 5 A.M. on April 18, 1906, an earthquake measuring 8.3 on the Richter scale ripped through sleeping San Francisco, toppling buildings, exploding gas mains, and trapping thousands of citizens beneath tons of stone, broken wood, and twisted metal. Herds of cattle stampeded madly through the streets. The air reverberated with the panicked screams of the doomed and dying.".
"Drawing on meticulous research and eyewitness accounts, Dan Kurzman re-creates one of the most horrific events of the twentieth century. It is a breathtaking, magnificently composed pastiche of personal tragedies. Kurzman captures the fear and madness that raged through a hell unequaled in the peacetime history of this nation. Yet, amid the rubble and death, the author also uncovers extraordinary courage and humanity and honorable acts as noble as any every celebrated."--BOOK JACKET.
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Disaster!: the great San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906
2002, G.K. Hall
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Disaster!: the great San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906
2001, W. Morrow
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-285) and index.
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