Front:
COSTO EROS 1005
TAKEN FROM RUSSIAN HILL
Back:
R27
REPRODUCED FROM AUTHENTIC PHOTOGRAPHS.
Badly-constructed buildings, or those with insecure foundations, collapsed completely,
crushing many hundreds in their fall. It was in such buildings that those who lost their
lives perished. How many there were of these will never be known, for the fire swept
the city so soon after the earthquake that the bodies were destroyed, but a conservative
estimate places the number at a thousand.-Leslie's Weekly.
The Rotograph Co., New York City.
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