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

[Illustration: =MAP OF SAN FRANCISCO AND VICINITY.=

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

INTRODUCTION

BY THE RT. REV. SAMUEL FALLOWS, D. D., LL. D.

A bright, intelligent unbeliever in the Providential government of the
world has just said to me in discussing this greatest of calamities
which has occurred in our nation's history, "Where is your benevolent
God?" I answered "He still lives and guides the affairs of men."
Another said, "The preachers would do well not to meddle with the
subject." But the reply was made, "It is precisely the subject with
which they, more than others, should concern themselves."

It is for them, when the hearts of men are failing to confidently
proclaim that God has not abdicated his throne, and that man is not
the sport of malign and lawless forces.

All events are ordered for the best; and the evils