Death-Dealing

ERUPTION OF MT. VESUVIUS

BY RICHARD LINTHICUM of the Editorial Staff of the Chicago
Chronicle.

Together with twelve descriptive chapters giving a graphic
and detailed account of the most interesting and historic
disasters of the past from ancient times to the present
day.

BY TRUMBULL WHITE Historian, Traveler and Geographer.

Profusely Illustrated with Photographic Scenes of the
Great Disasters and Views of the Devastated Cities and
Their People.

[Illustration: =THE AWFUL HORROR OF AN EARTHQUAKE.=

Lives, homes and property lost in a few seconds.]

[Illustration: =A PANORAMA OF THE RUINS.=

Photographed from Nob Hill--City Hall at the left.]

[Illustration: =BUSINESS DISTRICT IN SAN FRANCISCO.=

View from Nob Hill.]

COPYRIGHT 1906

BY

HUBERT D. RUSSELL

PREFACE

In presenting this history of the San Francisco Earthquake Horror and
Conflagration to the public, the publishers can assure the reader that
it is the most complete and authentic history of the great disaster
published.

The publishers set out with the determination to produce a work that
would leave no room for any other history on this subject, a task for
which they had the best facilities and the most perfect equipment.

The question of cost was not taken into consideration. The publishers
wanted the best writers, the best illustrations, the best paper,
printing and binding and proceeded immediately to get them. The
services of the two best historical writers in the United States were
secured within an hour after the first news of the catastrophe was
received. The names and historical works of Richard Linthicum and
Trumbull White are known in every household in the United States where
current history is read. They are the authors of many standard works,
including histories of recent wars and books of permanent reference,
and rank among the world's greatest descriptive writers.

A large staff of photographers have supplied illustrations for this
great historical work depicting every phase of the catastrophe from
the first shock of earthquake to the final work of relief. These
illustrations have special interest and value because they are made
from actual photographs taken by trained and skilled photographers.
This history of the most recent of the world's great disasters is
beyond all comparison the most sumptuously and completely illustrated