The Story of an Eyewitness by Jack London — VOA Learning English
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The western American city of San Francisco, California suffered a huge earthquake on April 18th, 1906.
More than three thousand people are known to have died. The true number of dead will never be known. Two hundred fifty thousand people lost their homes. Just a few hours after the terrible earthquake, a magazine named Collier’s sent a telegraph message to the famous American writer Jack London. They asked Mr. London to go to San Francisco and report about what he saw.
He arrived in the city only a few hours after the earthquake. The report he wrote is called, “The Story of an Eyewitness.”
Not in history has a modern city been so completely destroyed. San Francisco is gone. Nothing remains of…
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