The story of an eyewitness 一位见证人的故事
The story of an eyewitness
Never before in history has a city been so completely destroyed.San Francisco is gone.Noting is left left of it but memoties and some houses far from the centre of the city .Its businesses are gone .The factories,hotels and palaces are all gone too. Within an hour after the earthquake ,the smoke of San Francisco’s fires could be seen a 160 kilometres away. The sun was red in the dark sky.There was no stopping the fires. There was no way to organize or communicate .The steel railway tracks were now useless.And the great pipes for carrying water under the streets had burst .All of the ways man had made to keep the city safe were gone in the thirty seconds the earth moved.
Out at sea it was calm . No wind came up .Yet from every direction---east ,west ,north ,and south,strong winds blew upon the unlucky city . Man himself had to make ruins of some of the city’s best buildings so that they would not be a danger to those in the streets . A list of buildings not destroyes was now only a few addresses . A list of the brave men and women would fill a library . A list of all those killed will never be made.
Amazing as it may seem,Wednesday night was a quiet night. There were no crowds .The policemen said nothing; even their horses were quiet . There were no shouts or people doing crazy things. In all those terrible hours I saw not one woman who cried , not one man who was excited.Before the fires, through the night , thousands and thousands of people who had lost their homes left for safety. Some were covered in blankets . Sometimes whole families put everything they owned and could save into wagons . They helped one another climb the high hills around the city . Never in all San Francisco’s history were her people so kind as on that terrible night.
一位见证人的故事
以前，在历史上，从未有过一个城市曾经这样整个被催毁的。三藩市消逝了。什么都没留下，只有记忆和远离市中心的几栋房屋；生意没了；工厂，旅馆和宫殿也全都没了。在地震后的一小时内，三藩市大火的烟幕，从160公里外仍能看见。太阳在昏暗的天空呈红色；未停的大火；无法组织或联络，钢轨铁路没用了；街道下面的大输水管道破裂；从头到尾，人们建立保持城市安全的（设施），在30秒内全完了；地震移到海里；寂静，无风。还有从各个方向，东西南北吹来的大风，横扫这不幸的城市。人们自己必须去毁掉一些城市的最好的大楼，以使他们在街道上不再由于危楼而遭到危险。未被毁的大楼的名单，现在仅只几处；能列入名单的同感的男女人们，被收留在图书馆里；全部名列的遇难者，将不会复返。似乎惊愕的星期三的晚上是个寂静的夜；没有拥挤（的人群）；警察无话可说；甚至他们的坐骑都是安静的；人们没有呼喊或什么
疯狂的举动。在整个可怕的数小时内，我没看到一位女人哭泣，没一位男人激动。大火前，整个晚上，失去家园的成千上万的人们，为了安全而离开了；有些人裹着毯子。有时，全家把他们所拥有的和能挽救的（东西）都塞进车厢。他们互相帮助，爬上市周的山丘。在整个三藩市的历史上，从未见过她的市民，在这样可怕的夜晚，如此地友善。 |
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