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Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930
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Faint
sounds
of
the
life
of
the
city
came
to
their
ears.
A
swarm
of
monoplanes
roared
past
just
beneath
them.
The
streets
were
crowded
with
rapidly
moving
vehicles,
the
roof-tops
with
air-craft.
Then
suddenly
the
scene
darkened;
a
deep
rumbling
came
from
the
sea.
As
they
watched
in
fascinated
wonder,
a
great
chasm
opened
up
through
the
heart
of
the
city.
Tall
buildings
swayed
and
crumbled,
falling
into
heaps
of
twisted
metal
and
crushed
masonry
and
burying
hundreds
of
the
populace
in
their
fall.
The
confusion
was
indescribable,
the
uproar
terrific,
and
within
the
space
of
a
very
few
minutes
the
entire
city
was
a
mass
of
ruins,
fully
half
of
the
wrecked
area
having
been
swallowed
up
by
the
heaving
waters
of
the
ocean.
Phaestra
stifled
a
sob.
"Thus
it
began,"
she
stated.
"Trovus
was
first--the
city
you
just
saw--then
came
three
more
of
the
cities
of
the
western
coast
in
rapid
succession.
Computations
of
the
scientists
showed
that
the
upheaval
was
widespread
and
that
the
entire
continent
was
to
be
engulfed
in
a
very
short
time.
The
exodus
began,
but
it
was
too
late,
and
only
a
few
hundred
people
were
able
to
escape
the
continent
before
it
was
finally
destroyed.
The
ocean
became
the
tomb
of
two
hundred
millions.
The
handful
of
survivors
reached
the
coast
of
what
is
now
North
America.
But
the
rigors
of
the
climate
proved
severe
and
more
than
three-quarters
of
them
perished
within
a
few
days
after
their
planes
landed.
Then
the
rest
took
to
the
caves
along
the
shore,
and
for
a
while
were
safe."
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