Never before in history ________ a city been so completely destroyed. San Francisco is gone. Nothing is left of it ________ memories 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 ______ the earthquake, the smoke of San Francisco’s fires could be seen 160 kilometres away. The sun was red in the dark sky. There was no stopping the fires. There was no way to organize _______ communicate. The steel railway tracks were now _______(use). 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. ________ from all direction---east, west, north, and south, strong winds blew upon the _______ (luck) city. Man himself had to make ruins of some of the city’s best buildings _________ that they would not be a danger to those in the streets. A list of buildings undestroyed was now only a few addresses. A list of the brave men and women would fill a library. A list of all ________ killed will never be made.