item: #1 of 8 id: 26380 author: Linthicum, Richard title: Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror date: None words: 117418 flesch: 71 summary: When it rises out of the ashes it will be a modern city, much like other cities and without its old flavor. But while Chicago was the first of distant cities to pledge a big contribution, other cities throughout the country were not far behind. keywords: air; american; ashes; bay; blocks; bodies; building; business; california; chapter; children; chinese; church; cities; city; coast; country; crater; day; days; dead; death; destruction; disaster; district; earthquake; eruption; falling; feet; felt; fire; flames; following; gate; general; golden; great; ground; half; hill; homes; hotel; hours; houses; illustration; inhabitants; island; lava; left; life; line; lives; loss; man; market; men; miles; morning; mountain; near; new; night; north; number; ocean; pacific; park; people; pierre; place; red; relief; room; ruins; san francisco; sea; second; shock; smoke; soldiers; south; square; states; street; stricken; thousands; time; town; united; university; vesuvius; volcanic; volcano; volcanoes; walls; water; way; west; white; women; work; world; years cache: 26380.txt plain text: 26380.txt item: #2 of 8 id: 31627 author: Hull, Edward title: Volcanoes: Past and Present date: None words: 69781 flesch: 63 summary: Its southern section, that of Mont Dore, the Cantal, and the Haute Loire, is characterised by magnificent valleys, traversing plateaux of volcanic lava, and exhibiting the results of river erosion on a grand scale; while its northern section, that of the Puy de Dôme, presents to us a varied succession of volcanic crater-cones and domes, with their extruded lava-streams, almost as fresh and unchanged in form as if they had only yesterday become extinct. The extensive horizontal sheets of lava are suggestive of fissure-eruption rather than of eruption through volcanic craters; and although these may have once been in existence, denudation has left no vestiges of them at the present day. keywords: action; ashes; basalt; basaltic; beds; british; case; central; coast; cones; crater; crust; earth; earthquake; eruption; extinct; feet; fig; forces; form; general; great; group; height; illustration; islands; lake; lava; matter; miles; molten; moon; mountain; north; ocean; origin; period; phenomena; plateau; present; professor; region; rocks; sea; sheets; south; strata; streams; structure; surface; tertiary; time; vents; vesuvius; view; volcanic; volcanoes; von; water; western cache: 31627.txt plain text: 31627.txt item: #3 of 8 id: 32038 author: Goodwin, Harold L. (Harold Leland) title: The Flaming Mountain: A Rick Brant Science-Adventure Story date: None words: 39709 flesch: 90 summary: When Rick Brant and his pal Dan Scott fly to the famous resort island to join Rick's father, head of the Spindrift Scientific Foundation, a seemingly inactive volcano is about to explode in an eruption which could easily blow San Luz off the map. It was dark when they rolled out of Calor, Rick driving. keywords: balgos; boys; brant; connel; dynamite; earth; find; good; governor; guevara; hartson; hotel; island; jeep; luz; magma; montoya; mountain; people; rick; right; road; rock; room; san; scientists; scotty; station; time; troops; way; zircon cache: 32038.txt plain text: 32038.txt item: #4 of 8 id: 34744 author: Allen, Grant title: The White Man's Foot date: None words: 35386 flesch: 84 summary: My heart was sore for poor little Kea. Don't you see poor Kea's dreadfully distressed? keywords: crater; eruption; eyes; face; fire; floor; frank; girl; good; half; hands; hawaiian; house; kalaua; kea; lava; lay; leg; maloka; man; moment; mountain; pélé; round; time; volcano; way; white cache: 34744.txt plain text: 34744.txt item: #5 of 8 id: 35433 author: Hamilton, William, Sir title: Observations on Mount Vesuvius, Mount Etna, and Other Volcanos date: None words: 31250 flesch: 63 summary: The operations of Nature are slow: great eruptions do not frequently happen; each flatters himself it will not happen in his time, or, if it should, that his tutelar saint will turn away the destructive lava from his grounds; and indeed the great fertility in the neighbourhoods of Volcanos tempts people to inhabit them. In great eruptions of Etna, the same sort of lightning, as described in my account of the last eruption of Vesuvius, has been frequently seen to issue from the smoak of its great crater. keywords: account; ashes; cone; crater; eruption; etna; explosion; feet; fire; great; height; hot; island; lake; lava; letter; matter; miles; mount vesuvius; mountain; mouth; naples; nature; neighbourhood; night; observations; parts; plain; pumice; sea; smoak; soil; spot; stones; time; vesuvius; volcano; water; year cache: 35433.txt plain text: 35433.txt item: #6 of 8 id: 37588 author: Stables, Gordon title: The Island of Gold: A Sailor's Yarn date: None words: 81014 flesch: 88 summary: The storm had gone down almost as quickly as it had arisen, and sea and sky were blue and beautiful once again. Said James, as they all sat smoking there,-- Brother Halcott, my first words are these--and I'm an older man than either of you--We must not despair! We must not despair! repeated both his shipmates. When in action, on the field, or on the march, he had little time to think; but here, in this solitude, the seared conscience regained its softness, and in his thoughts by day and in his dreams at the dead hours o' night, Charles Halcott, rose visions of the terrible misery he brought on Europe, and the black and awful deeds he did in Egypt. keywords: admiral; babs; board; boat; bob; boy; captain; cave; come; dark; day; days; dear; eyes; face; father; fire; flower; going; gold; good; green; halcott; hand; head; high; hill; home; island; james; kind; left; life; like; look; man; men; miss; moment; nelda; night; poor; ransey; round; sailor; savages; scragley; sea; ship; tandy; time; tree; way; weathereye; white; wild; wind cache: 37588.txt plain text: 37588.txt item: #7 of 8 id: 43320 author: Houston, Edwin J. (Edwin James) title: The Wonder Book of Volcanoes and Earthquakes date: None words: 99886 flesch: 67 summary: But we can better understand the nature of earthquake sounds from an actual description of them in a number of great earthquakes, and by inquiring at the same time into any of the peculiar facts connected. These waves are, perhaps, among the most destructive phenomena of great earthquakes. keywords: active; air; america; ashes; case; city; coast; country; crater; crust; deep; distance; earth; earthquake; eruption; fact; feet; fig; fissures; following; form; great; ground; height; illustration; island; krakatoa; lake; lava; level; mass; miles; moon; mountain; mud; neighborhood; north; number; ocean; parts; people; place; point; region; rock; sea; shocks; sides; south; steam; summit; surface; temperature; time; volcanic; volcanoes; water; waves; world cache: 43320.txt plain text: 43320.txt item: #8 of 8 id: 46658 author: Serao, Matilde title: "Sterminator Vesevo" (Vesuvius the great exterminator) Diary of the Eruption of April 1906 date: None words: 21877 flesch: 78 summary: They are poor, exiled people, escaping for life, and notwithstanding all help, notwithstanding the great impulse of charity, they are too many, they are all a population of poor people, of starving people of naked people, and more must be done for them. On this road that goes to Somma, other people have passed an hour ago, and we also want to go over it all, even through ashes and lapillus, over the stones, just as we can, by carriage, on foot, any-way. keywords: ashes; children; country; day; dead; death; heart; houses; lava; life; little; man; men; naples; night; ottaiano; people; poor; stones; women; work cache: 46658.txt plain text: 46658.txt