CONTAINS A COMPLETE AND ACCURATE ACCOUNT OF THE GREAT ITALIAN AND SICILIAN EARTH QUAKE AND TIDAL WAVE OF 1908 , one of the most fearful disasters nature ever visited upon the human race , in which more lives were lost , in a few ill - fated minutes , than Russia lost in battle during her war with Japan .
A compendium of thrilling accounts given by eye witnesses who escaped death , and those engaged in the noble work of relief , the whole being a picture of tragic pathos , before which civilization stands in fascinated awe . Pompeii of old , and San Francisco's great disaster pale into insignificance beside its frightful loss of life .
BOOK II . INCLUDES A GRAPHIC STORY OF ALL GREAT EARTHQUAKES AND VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS IN THE WORLD'S HISTORY , TOGETHER WITH SCIEN TIFIC EXPLANATIONS OF THEIR CAUSES .
-EDITED BY CHARLES MORRIS The well - known Historian , Encyclopedist_and Scientist . Author of " An Historical Review of Civilization ; " " The Greater Republic ; " “ Decisive Events in American History ; " " Man and His Ancestors ; " " The Volcano's Deadly Work ; " " The San Fran cisco Calamity ; " Half - Hours with Best American Authors ; ' Associate Editor on Encyclopedias , etc. , etc. Member of the Pennsylvania Academy of Natural Sciences and the Geographical Society of Philadelphia .
A compendium of thrilling accounts given by eye witnesses who escaped death , and those engaged in the noble work of relief , the whole being a picture of tragic pathos , before which civilization stands in fascinated awe . Pompeii of old , and San Francisco's great disaster pale into insignificance beside its frightful loss of life .
BOOK II . INCLUDES A GRAPHIC STORY OF ALL GREAT EARTHQUAKES AND VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS IN THE WORLD'S HISTORY , TOGETHER WITH SCIEN TIFIC EXPLANATIONS OF THEIR CAUSES .
-EDITED BY CHARLES MORRIS The well - known Historian , Encyclopedist_and Scientist . Author of " An Historical Review of Civilization ; " " The Greater Republic ; " “ Decisive Events in American History ; " " Man and His Ancestors ; " " The Volcano's Deadly Work ; " " The San Fran cisco Calamity ; " Half - Hours with Best American Authors ; ' Associate Editor on Encyclopedias , etc. , etc. Member of the Pennsylvania Academy of Natural Sciences and the Geographical Society of Philadelphia .
- Author
- Morris, Charles, 1833-1922
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