The earthquake shook down in San Francisco hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of walls and chimneys. But the 1) that followed burned up hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of property. There is no 2) within hundreds of millions the actual damage 3) . Not in history has a modern 4) city been so completely destroyed. San Francisco is gone. Nothing remains of it but memories and a fringe of 5) on its outskirts. Its industrial section is wiped out. Its business section is wiped out. Its social and 6. ) section is wiped out. The factories and warehouses, the great stores and newspaper buildings, the hotels and the palaces of the 7. ) are all gone. Within an hour after the earthquake shock the smoke of San Francisco’s burning was a 8. ) tower visible a hundred miles away. And for three days and nights this tower swayed in the sky, reddening the sun, darkening the day, and filling the land with smoke.