Chapter XXXIV

ST. PIERRE, MARTINIQUE, ANNIHILATED BY A VOLCANO.

BY TRUMBULL WHITE.

Fifty Thousand Men, Women and Children Slain in
an Instant--Molten Fire and Suffocating Gases Rob
Multitudes of Life--Death Reigns in the Streets
of the Stricken City--The Governor and Foreign
Consuls Die at Their Posts of Duty--No Escape for
the Hapless Residents in the Fated Town--Scenes
of Suffering Described--Desolation Over All--Few
Left to Tell the Tale of the Morning of Disaster 397

ILLUSTRATIONS

The Awful Horror of an Earthquake Frontispiece

A Panorama of the Ruins Frontispiece

Business District of San Francisco Frontispiece

Former Mayor James D. Phelan 11

Mayor Eugene E. Schmitz 11

Looking East on Market Street 12

View from Fifth and Market Streets 12

Market Street, Scene of Ruins 31

United States Guards in Charge of Dead 32

Street Torn Up by Earthquake 41

Stockton Street 42

Grant Avenue 42

Mission Street 43

O'Farrell Street 43

Looking North from Sixth and Market Streets 44

The Orpheum Theatre 44

San Francisco on Fire 53

Destroyed Wholesale Houses 54

Cracks in Earth 63

Ruins of Emporium Building 63

Map--Bird's-Eye View of San Francisco 64

Ruins of Hall of Justice 65

Looking Down Market Toward Call Building 66

From California Street Toward Call Building 66

Market Street Before the Disaster 75

The Devouring Flames 76

Mark Hopkins Institute, Nob Hill 85

United States Mint 86

New Postoffice Building 87

Jefferson Square 88

Chronicle Building 97

St. Francis Hotel (Before the Earthquake) 97

Ferry House 98

Free Water 115

Distributing Clothes 115

Wires Destroyed 116

Military Camp 116

Kitchens in the Street 133

Wing of City Hall, Crumbled 133

Cattle Killed 134

St. John's Church, Ruined 134

Camp Kitchen in Ball Park 151

Shacks in Golden Gate Park 151

Governor Pardee 152

Major General Adolphus Greely 152

Refugees on Telegraph Hill 169

General Funston and Wife 170

Vendome Hotel, San Jose 187

Postoffice, San Jose 188

Corner of Baptist Church 205

Kearney Street, San Francisco 205

Ferry Building 206

Military Quarters 206

Randolph Storage 223

Switchboard Destroyed 223

St. Dominici Church, Freak with Steeple 224

St. Dominici Church, Wrecked 224

Chinese Refugees 241

Flat Building, Sunk 242

Seeking Lost Friends 259

All that Was Left of a Fine Residence 259

Soldiers' Encampment 260

Alameda Park 260

Dolores Mission 277

Wreck and Ruin 278

Wreck and Ruin 278

Crack in Earth 295

Ghoulish Thieves Looting the Dead 296

Effect of Earthquake on Modern Steel Building 313

Vesuvius During Recent Eruption 314

Road Leading to Vesuvius Before Eruption 314

Showing towns and section of country that suffered the most from
effects of earthquake.]