The Complete Story of the Italian Earthquake Horror (Classic Reprint)
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Miller, James Martin) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from The Complete Story of the Italian Earthquake Horror The first ten years of the Twentieth Century will go down in history as the Earthquake and Volcano Decade. On May 8th, 1902, thirty thousand human lives at St. Pierre, under the shadow of Mount Pelee, were snuffed out of existence in thirty seconds. When the author of this book, ten days afterwards, visited the scene at St. Pierre, it was evident that not one living, breathing creature, including the domestic animals and fowls, had escaped instant death. Everything, buildings and all, given form by man, had been completely annihilated. At the same instant, almost seventy miles across the West Indian waters, the fury of the awful flow of molten lava destroyed two thousand lives on the British isle of St. Vincent. The Charleston and St. Louis Cyclones, the Johnstown Flood, and the Galveston Tidal Wave of the fifteen years before the dawning of the Twentieth Century were dwarfed into insignificance, in the loss of human beings, by the Martinique Disaster. Closely following the annihilation of St. Pierre came the destruction of San Francisco; Kingston, Jamaica; Valparaiso, Chile, and the awful tidal wave at Hong Kong. At each of these horrors of Nature the world was dazed. But, in the disaster occurring in Italy during the Holiday Season of 1908, every man and woman of the earth were turned from the festivities of the season into deepest gloom and sorrow, with thoughts of practical charity, sympathy and help for their stricken Italian brothers and sisters. Individuals, societies and nations united in one grand common effort for immediate succor for the stricken-down Italians and Sicilians. Our own great navy hastened, at the finish of the famous cruise around the world, to save and preserve life and to assist in burying the scores of thousands of the dead. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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