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  2. TERRIBLE CALAMITY.

    LONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--An appalling catastrophe has befallen the city of San Francisco. An earthquake, which occurred this morning, wrought tremendous devastation. Half the city was laid in ruins, and it is reported that a ...

    Article : 1,759 words
  3. THE LELAND STANFORD UNIVERSITY.

    The magnificent pile of buildings at Palo Alto, 33 miles from San Francisco, which formed a University of high degree, was determined upon by Leland Stanford and Jane Lathrop Stanford ...

    Article : 467 words
  4. OAKLAND CITY.

    Oakland, which is involved in the general destruction, is a city of 125,000 inhabitants, about seven miles from San Francisco, aud a favorite residential area it lies across Oakland Bay ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 141 words
  5. SAN FRANCISCO'S REPUTATION.

    Mr. Orlando Baker, the American Consul, details were to hand. "I have heard with great could say very little in view of the fact that no regret and sorrow of the catastrophe," he said. ...

    Article : 228 words
  6. SOME OF THE BUILDINGS DESTROYED.

    "The Palace Hotel of the world, unique: unexcelled. even in this age of modern architecture," is how one writer describes the fine Palace Hotel, which has been destroyed in this ...

    Article : 268 words
  7. SUMMARY OF THE DISASTER.

    AUCKLAND, Thursday Afternoon.--The following details of the San Francisco earthquake have been communicated to the Premier by Mr. Reynolds, manager of the Pacific Cable Board:-- "The local magnitude of the disaster is growing at every moment. ...

    Article : 572 words
  8. LOCAL AFFECTED AREAS.

    Mr. T. G. Taylor, assistant to Dr. W. G. Woolnough, at the Sydney University, makes a study of earthquakes as associated with Australia, and New South Wales in particular. In an ...

    Article : 533 words
  9. A BUSY CENTRE.

    At the foot of Market-street, the main thoroughfare of the city, the long, low Union ferry building of gray Colusa stone, commands the view, and its graceful clock-tower rises ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,047 words
  10. WHAT PEOPLE SAID.

    "It has always been predicted that San Francisco will drop out of sight some day," said Mr. J. M. Duckworth, of the Oceanic Steamship Company, who has spent a number of years in ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 465 words
  11. SAN FRANCISCO.

    "It is a city of fair aspect," is the description one writer has given of San Francisco, and it is not inappropriate. A city of 450,000 inhabitants--a shifting ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 736 words
  12. STRAIN ON THE EARTH'S CRUST.

    Mr. E. C. Andrews, geological surveyor, has theory as to the cause of earthquakes and the probable reason for the particular one at San Francisco. ...

    Article : 605 words
  13. DR. WOOLNOUGH'S OPINIONS.

    Dr. W. G. Woolnough, lecturer and demonstrator at the Sydney University, was seen shortly after the receipt of the cable giving the bare particulars of the disaster. Questioned on the ...

    Article : 849 words
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