In 1905 Barrymore 's son Lionel visited him at Amityville and the subject of San Francisco came up . Maurice called Lionel a " goddamned liar " and stated that San Francisco had been destroyed by fire and earthquake . Lionel writes in his autobiography that his father had foreseen the great 1906 earthquake a full year before it took place
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