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.
