The history of the San Francisco disaster and Mount Vesuvius horror (1906) (14586349669)

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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THE SAN FRANCISCO DISASTER 303 Wellington lie alongside the wharves. Yonder is aclumsy old square Sacramento River steamer with sternpaddle wheel and double smokestacks. A rakish brigfrom the South Sea Islands crowds up alongside of astumpy little green flat bottom sloop which plies onthe bay. Sparrows chatter on the dusty wharf and scarcelybudge for the heavy dray, drawn by ponderous Nor-man horses that shake the planks beneath them asthey thunder along. Donkey engines rattle and clat-ter at unloading coal into cars on bridges leadingacross the street to the huge grimy coal store-houses.Teamsters pass with big lumber trucks and wagonsloaded with sacks of grain. A group of heavy-set,stolid coal passers shuffles by. Idle beach combersand wharf rats with sooty faces lounge on lumber pilesand stare vacantly at the scene. A vista through the shipping shows the steely bluewater of the bay with a lavender-gray background offog. There is a medley of schooners, scows, tendersand tugs along sh