I Survived #5: I Survived the San Francisco Earthquake, 1906 by Lauren Tarshis

Author:Lauren Tarshis [Tarshis, Lauren]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Social Issues, Family, Juvenile Fiction, General, United States, Historical, Friendship, 20th Century
ISBN: 9780545392617
Google: QxQJtScere0C
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2012-03-01T05:00:00+00:00

Wilkie led them back toward Market Street.

Wilkie was sure Fletch had gone back to the abandoned house where they stashed their loot.

“That way if the police got us,” he explained, “they wouldn’t find it.”

They zigzagged through the crowds of people. Most of them were heading away from where Wilkie was taking them. And no wonder. The damage was worse the farther south they walked. One boardinghouse was split in half. Another had been swallowed by the earth almost to its rooftop. Trolley tracks were twisted like pretzels. On one block, men were trying to hoist a horse out of a hole in the street.

Leo tried not to look at the collapsed buildings, but he couldn’t stop thinking about who might still be inside.

The fires were worse down here. With every step the smoke was thicker, the air hotter. Leo’s lungs started to ache.

They were about to cross Market Street when a fire wagon clattered up and stopped in front of them. The two huge horses pulling the wagon wheezed and snorted. Sweat soaked their bodies. Two firefighters jumped off, dragging a thick hose. They hooked it up to a hydrant, but only a trickle of water came out.

A man in a bloodstained shirt rushed up to the firemen.

“Please help me,” he begged. “Everything I own is in my house, and a fire is moving toward it.”

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