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.
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New York :
F. Watts,
[1961]
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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.