on a wednesday morning at a quarter past five came the carthquake. a minute laterthe flames were leaping upward in a dozen different quarters south of market street, fires started. there was no organization,on communication. all the cunning adjustments of a twentieth-century city had been smashed by the earthquake. the streets were humped into ridges and piled with the debris of fallen walls. the steel rails were twisted into horizontal angles. the telephone and telegraph systems were disrupted . and the great water- mains had burst. all the shrewd contrivances and safeguards of man had been thrown outof gear by thirty seconds' twitching of earth-crust
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