Disaster, disaster, disaster : catastrophes which changed laws /

Eye-witness accounts of disasters in the U.S. from the Chicago fire in 1871 to the Air collision over Grand Canyon in 1956.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Newton, Douglas, 1920-2001 (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : F. Watts, [1961]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Chicago : Great city in ashes
  • Johnstown : flood and fire
  • Minnesota : train ride through inferno
  • Galveston : city on a sand bar
  • Iroquois Theater : luxury, laughter, and doom
  • General Slocum : summer excursion into death
  • San Francisco : the cracking open of a city
  • Monongah Mines : death claims the day shift
  • Collinwood : fire drill that failed
  • Triangle Waist Company : fire ten stories high
  • Titanic : iceberg in the dark Atlantic
  • Dayton : city downstream from disaster
  • Eastland : slowly the ship capsized
  • New London : school on a volcano
  • Coconut Grove : Saturday night dance of death
  • Barnum and Bailey Circus : the day the Big Top burned
  • Texas City Harbor : a harmless chemical smoldered
  • Long Island Rail Road : disaster took the evening train
  • Grand Canyon : collision in the sky.