| CHAPTER VI. |
| SCENES OF TERROR, DEATH AND HEROISM. |
| Thrilling Escapes and Deeds of Daring—Sublime Bravery and Self-Sacrifice byMen and Women—How the United States Mint and the Treasuries WereSaved and Protected by Devoted Employes and Soldiers—Pathetic StreetIncidents—Soldiers and Police Compel Fashionably Attired to Assist inCleaning Streets—Italians Drench Homes with Wine | [103] |
| CHAPTER VII. |
| THRILLING PERSONAL EXPERIENCES. |
| Scenes of Horror and Panic Described by Victims of the Quake Who Escaped—HowHelpless People Were Crushed to Death by Falling Buildings andDebris—Some Marvelous Escapes | [119] |
| CHAPTER VIII. |
| THRILLING PERSONAL EXPERIENCES—CONTINUED. |
| Hairbreadth Escapes from the Hotels Whose Walls Crumbled—Frantic MothersSeek Children from Whom They Were Torn by the Quake—Reckless Use ofFirearms by Cadet Militia—Tales of Heroism and Suffering | [132] |
| CHAPTER IX. |
| THROUGH LANES OF MISERY. |
| A Graphic Pen Picture of San Francisco in Flames and in Ruins—Scenes andStories of Human Interest where Millionaires and Paupers Mingled in aCommon Brotherhood—A Harrowing Trip in an Automobile | [141] |
| CHAPTER X. |
| WHOLE NATION RESPONDS WITH AID. |
| Government Appropriates Millions and Chicago Leads All Other Cities with aRound Million of Dollars—People in All Ranks of Life from PresidentRoosevelt to the Humblest Wage Earner Give Promptly and Freely | [157] |
| CHAPTER XI. |
| ALL CO-OPERATE IN RELIEF WORK. |
| Citizens’ Committee Takes Charge of the Distribution of Supplies, Aided bythe Red Cross Society and the Army—Nearly Three-Fourths of the EntirePopulation Fed and Sheltered in Refuge Camps | [162] |
| CHAPTER XII. |
| OUR BOYS IN BLUE PROVE HEROISM. |
| United States Troops at the Presidio and Fort Mason Under Command of GeneralFunston Bring Order Out of Chaos and Save City from Pestilence—SanFrancisco Said “Thank God for the Boys in Blue”—Stricken City Patrolled by Soldiers | [171] |
| CHAPTER XIII. |
| IN THE REFUGE CAMPS. |
| Scenes of Destitution in the Parks Where the Homeless Were Gathered—Richand Poor Share Food and Bed Alike—All Distinctions of Wealth and SocialPosition Wiped Out by the Great Calamity | [178] |
| CHAPTER XIV. |
| RUINS AND HAVOC IN COAST CITIES. |
| San Jose, the Prettiest Place in the State, Wrecked by Quake—State InsaneAsylum Collapsed and Buried Many Patients Beneath the Crumbled Walls—EnormousDamage at Santa Rosa | [189] |
| CHAPTER XV. |
| DESTRUCTION OF GREAT STANFORD UNIVERSITY. |
| California’s Magnificent Educational Institution, the Pride of the State,Wrecked by Quake—Founded by the Late Senator Leland Stanford as aMemorial to His Son and Namesake—Loss $3,000,000 | [198] |
| CHAPTER XVI. |
| FIGHTING FIRE WITH DYNAMITE. |
| San Francisco Conflagration Eventually Checked by the Use of Explosives—Lessonof Baltimore Needed in Coast City—Western Remnant of City inResidence Section Saved by Blowing Up Beautiful Homes of the Rich | [208] |
| CHAPTER XVII. |
| MISCELLANEOUS FACTS AND INCIDENTS. |
| Many Babies Born in Refuge Camps—Expressions of Sympathy from ForeignNations—San Francisco’s Famous Restaurants—Plight of Newspaper andTelegraph Offices | [214] |
| CHAPTER XVIII. |
| DISASTER AS VIEWED BY SCIENTISTS. |
| Scientists are Divided Upon the Theories Concerning the Shock That WroughtHavoc in the Golden Gate City—May Have Originated Miles Under theOcean—Growth of the Sierra Madre Mountains May Have Been the Cause | [230] |
| CHAPTER XIX. |
| CHINATOWN, A PLAGUE SPOT BLOTTED OUT. |
| An Oriental Hell within an American City—Foreign in Its Stores, GamblingDens and Inhabitants—The Mecca of All San Francisco Sight Seers—SecretPassages, Opium Joints and Slave Trade Its Chief Features | [246] |
| CHAPTER XX. |
| THE NEW SAN FRANCISCO. |
| A Modern City of Steel on the Ruins of the City that Was—A Beautiful Vistaof Boulevards, Parks and Open Spaces Flanked by the Massive Structuresof Commerce and the Palaces of Wealth and Fashion | [255] |
| CHAPTER XXI. |
| VESUVIUS THREATENS NAPLES. |
| Beautiful Italian City on the Mediterranean Almost Engulfed in Ashes andLava from the Terrible Volcano—Worst Eruption Since the Days of Pompeiiand Herculaneum—Buildings Crushed and Thousands Rendered Homeless | [267] |
| CHAPTER XXII. |
| SCENES IN FRIGHTENED NAPLES. |
| Blistering Showers of Hot Ashes—The People Frantic—Cry Everywhere“When Will It End?”—Atmosphere Charged with Electricity and Poisonous Fumes | [279] |
| CHAPTER XXIII. |
| VOLCANOES AND EARTHQUAKES EXPLAINED. |
| BY TRUMBULL WHITE. |
| The Theories of Science on Seismic Convulsions—Volcanoes Likened to Boils onthe Human Body, Through Which the Fires and Impurities of the BloodManifest Themselves—Seepage of Ocean Waters Through Crevices in theRocks Reaches the Internal Fires of the Earth—Steam Is Generated and anExplosion Follows—Geysers and Steam Boilers as Illustrations—Views ofthe World’s Most Eminent Scientists Concerning the Causes of the Eruptionsof Mount Pelee and La Soufriere | [285] |
| CHAPTER XXIV. |
| TERRIBLE VOLCANIC DISASTERS OF THE PAST. |
| BY TRUMBULL WHITE. |
| Destruction of Sodom, Gomorrah and the Other Cities of the Plain—The BibleAccount a Graphic Description of the Event—Ancient Writers Tell ofEarthquakes and Volcanoes of Antiquity—Discovery of Buried Cities ofWhich No Records Remain—Formation of the Dead Sea—The Valley of theJordan and Its Physical Characteristics | [303] |
| CHAPTER XXV. |
| VESUVIUS AND THE DESTRUCTION OF POMPEII. |
| BY TRUMBULL WHITE. |
| Most Famous Volcanic Eruption in History—Roman Cities Overwhelmed—Scenesof Horror Described by Pliny, the Great Classic Writer, an Eye-Witnessof the Disaster—Buried in Ashes and Lava—The Stricken TownsPreserved for Centuries Excavated in Modern Times as a Wonderful Museumof the Life of 1,800 Years Ago | [309] |
| CHAPTER XXVI. |
| MOUNT ÆTNA AND THE SICILIAN HORRORS. |
| BY TRUMBULL WHITE. |
| A Volcano with a Record of Twenty-five Centuries—Seventy-eight RecordedEruptions—Three Hundred Thousand Inhabitants Dwelling on the Slopesof the Mountain and in the Valleys at Its Base—Stories of EarthquakeShocks and Lava Flows—Tales of Destruction—Described by Ancient andModern Writers and Eye-Witnesses | [321] |
| CHAPTER XXVII. |
| LISBON EARTHQUAKE SCOURGED. |
| BY TRUMBULL WHITE. |
| Sixty Thousand Lives Lost in a Few Moments—An Opulent and Populous CapitalDestroyed—Graphic Account by an English Merchant Who Resided inthe Stricken City—Tidal Waves Drown Thousands in the City Streets—ShipsEngulfed in the Harbor—Criminals Rob and Burn—Terrible Desolationand Suffering | [334] |
| CHAPTER XXVIII. |
| JAPAN AND ITS DISASTROUS EARTHQUAKES AND VOLCANOES. |
| BY TRUMBULL WHITE. |
| The Island Empire Subject to Convulsions of Nature—Legends of Ancient Disturbances—FamousVolcano of Fuji-yama Formed in One Night—MoreThan One Hundred Volcanoes in Japan—Two Hundred and Thirty-two EruptionsRecorded—Devastation of Thriving Towns and Busy Cities—The Capitala Sufferer—Scenes of Desolation after the Most Recent Great Earthquakes | [344] |
| CHAPTER XXIX. |
| KRAKATOA, THE GREATEST OF VOLCANIC EXPLOSIONS. |
| BY TRUMBULL WHITE. |
| East Indian Catastrophes—The Volcano that Blew Its Own Head Off—TheTerrific Crash Heard Three Thousand Miles—Atmospheric Waves TravelSeven Times Around the Earth—A Pillar of Dust Seventeen Miles High—Islandsof the Malay Archipelago Blotted Out of Existence—Native VillagesAnnihilated—Other Disastrous Upheavals in the East Indies | [353] |
| CHAPTER XXX. |
| OUR GREAT HAWAIIAN AND ALASKAN VOLCANOES. |
| BY TRUMBULL WHITE. |
| Greatest Volcanoes in the World Are Under the American Flag—Huge Cratersin Our Pacific Islands—Native Worship of the Gods of the Flaming Mountains—Eruptionsof the Past—Heroic Defiance of Pele, the Goddess of Volcanoesby a Brave Hawaiian Queen—The Spell of Superstition Broken—VolcanicPeaks in Alaska, Our Northern Territory—Aleutian Islands Report Eruptions | [363] |
| CHAPTER XXXI. |
| SOUTH AMERICAN CITIES DESTROYED. |
| BY TRUMBULL WHITE. |
| Earthquakes Ravage the Coast Cities of Peru and the Neighboring Countries—SpanishCapitals in the New World Frequent Sufferers—Lima, Callao andCaracas Devastated—Tidal Waves Accompany the Earthquakes—Juan FernandezIsland Shaken—Fissures Engulf Men and Animals—Peculiar Effects Observed | [373] |
| CHAPTER XXXII. |
| EARTHQUAKES AND VOLCANOES IN CENTRAL AMERICA AND MEXICO. |
| BY TRUMBULL WHITE. |
| A Region Frequently Disturbed by Subterranean Forces—Guatemala a FatedCity—A Lake Eruption in Honduras Described by a Great Painter—City ofSan Jose Destroyed—Inhabitants Leave the Vicinity to Wander as Beggars—Disturbanceson the Route of the Proposed Nicaragua Canal—San SalvadorIs Shaken—Mexican Cities Suffer | [382] |
| CHAPTER XXXIII. |
| CHARLESTON, GALVESTON, JOHNSTOWN—OUR AMERICAN DISASTERS. |
| BY TRUMBULL WHITE. |
| Earthquake Shock in South Carolina—Many Lives Lost in the Riven City—GalvestonSmitten by Tidal Wave and Hurricane—Thousands Die in Floodand Shattered Buildings—The Gulf Coast Desolated—Johnstown, Pennsylvania,Swept by Water from a Bursting Reservoir—Scenes of Horror | [389] |
| CHAPTER XXXIV. |
| ST. PIERRE, MARTINIQUE, ANNIHILATED BY A VOLCANO. |
| BY TRUMBULL WHITE. |
| Fifty Thousand Men, Women and Children Slain in an Instant—Molten Fireand Suffocating Gases Rob Multitudes of Life—Death Reigns in the Streetsof the Stricken City—The Governor and Foreign Consuls Die at TheirPosts of Duty—No Escape for the Hapless Residents in the Fated Town—Scenesof Suffering Described—Desolation Over All—Few Left to Tell theTale of the Morning of Disaster | [397] |
