Identifier: historyofsanfra00bank (find matches)
Title: The history of the San Francisco disaster and Mount Vesuvius horror
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Banks, Charles Eugene, 1852-1932 Read, Opie Percival, 1852-1939
Subjects: San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906 Volcanoes Fires
Publisher: (Chicago? Ill. : s.n.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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CHAPTER XXX LESSER DISASTERS IN THE UNITED STATES Charleston, South Carolina, Partly Destroyed byEarthquake in 1886—Fearful Flood in ConemaughValley That Wiped out Johnstown and Killed 2,280Persons—Galveston Devastated by TremendousStorm That Drove Waters of the Gulf Over the City,Blotting Out 8,000 Lives. Among the earthquakes that have been experiencedin the United States, the one which partly destroyedCharleston, South Carolina, in 1886 ranks second onlyto the recent seismic convulsion in California. In thisdisaster forty lives were lost, and property valued at$5,000,000 was destroyed. The city was virtuallyruined. Two-thirds of the houses were rendered un-inhabitable, railroads and telegraph lines were wrecked,and fires that broke out added to the devastation. Nature gave a slight warning of this catastrophe,for on the morning of August 28th a slight shock wasfelt throughout North and South Carolina and part ofGeorgia. But little attention was paid to this tremor.The night of

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