THE SAN FRANCISCO DISASTER.
One can hardly realise the appalling calamity that occurred at San Francisco on Wednesday morning, and from the latest reports the main part of the City is doomed. One can imagine the panic of a city with a population of about four hundred thousand people being roused from their beds at five o'clock in the morning by huge structures falling all over the city, and when reaching the streets to find them waving and- rocking as if about to open up. The earthquake broke the gas and water mains, and fires breaking out the scene must have been an awful one. The reading alone makes one shudder at the terrible time the inhabitants must have put in, but to those who will lose their relations and property it must have been a terrible trial. The loss of property must be enormous, as San Francisco had some magnificent buildings, and what the earthquake left was consumed by the fire. Communication is almost cut off and it has been difficult to get news through, and it will be some days yet before the full extent of this terrible disaster will be known.
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Cromwell Argus, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1985, 23 April 1906, Page 4
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194THE SAN FRANCISCO DISASTER. Cromwell Argus, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1985, 23 April 1906, Page 4
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