Earthquake early report.
In the April 1906 issue of Best's Review, a short front-page
feature, inserted after the magazine had been made up, reported
"the city of San Francisco - For the city, see San Francisco, California.
The City of San Francisco was a streamlined passenger train operated jointly by the Chicago and North Western Railway, the Southern Pacific Railroad, and the Union Pacific Railroad. was visited by an earthquake followed by
a conflagration, the two constituting a catastrophe Catastrophe, from the Greek Καταστροφή (katastrephein), literally means "to turn" (strephein) "downwards" (kata-). which ... appears to
exceed in destructiveness any which ever visited this country." The
magazine estimated property loss at $200 million to $300 million,
although those numbers were based upon press reports because telegraphic tel·e·graph·ic also tel·e·graph·i·cal
adj.
1. Of, relating to, or transmitted by telegraph.
2. Brief or concise: a telegraphic style of writing. communication was slow and uncertain. Conservatives had "grave
doubts of the solvency The ability of an individual to pay his or her debts as they mature in the normal and ordinary course of business, or the financial condition of owning property of sufficient value to discharge all of one's debts.
solvency n. of many of the companies involved," the
magazine noted and said it would mail a supplement giving all the
details available.
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