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...Embassy staff, sprained his wrist by jumping from a window of the Imperial Hotel, 20 feet from the ground. Linden Wells of Los Angeles fractured his ankle in running out into the open. Most of the guests of the Imperial Hotel fled into the corridors at the first tremor, others rushed out into the streets with their clothes and dressed there. Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt and her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Kermit Roosevelt, present in the Imperial, "showed great calmness." Kermit Roosevelt, in Kioto, missed the thrilling experience...
Towards evening the President seemed in good health. Mrs. Harding and a woman nurse were with him. Mrs. Harding was reading aloud. Without warning a tremor shook his frame and he collapsed. Physicians were summoned. It was announced that the President had died of cerebral apoplexy at 7:30 p. m., Pacific time...
Professor Woodworth stated that this tremor was not unforseen as geologists had been expecting a similar disturbance in this particular locality for several years. They were led to this forecast from the fact that the shock was centered in the belt between the great earthquake of Mount St. Elias in the region of Alaska, and the San Francisco district. The former disturbance, which occurred in 1899, was the greatest shock that has taken place in North America since the white man's occupancy, while the San Francisco disaster was a serious shakeup in the earth's crust. The section between...
...forces of nature; but his ignorance of the forces of human nature is equally remarkable. We can run across the continent fifty miles an hour and fly through the air more than a hundred miles an hour. But within the last few weeks we in America were in a tremor of anxiety lest this mouth in all our towns and cities we should be hungry for want of food and cold for want of fuel, because the men on whom the community depended for food and fuel were quarreling among themselves and proposed to stop our supplies. Germany showed...
...Venice to St. Petersburg" by P. V. Donovan '18, depends for its chief interest on the old time thrill which even Americans felt at hobnobbing with royalty. Now, the thrill is a very slight tremor with a tendency to a chill...