| Notes: | Some of the famous disasters covered in this book are: the New Orleans cholera epidemic, the New Madrid earthquake, the Donner's Pass ordeal, the sinking of the Phoenix in Lake Michigan, the explosion of the Sultana on the Mississippi, the Great Chicago fire, the Peshtigo forest fires, the yellow fever epidemic of 1878, the train wreck on the bridge at Chatsworth, Illinois, the Johnstown flood, the Hinckley, Minnesota forest fires, the 1896 twister in St. Louis, the Galveston tidal wave, the Iroquois theater fire, the fire on the Slocum on New York city's East river, the San Francisco earthquake, and the Cherry, Illinois mine fire.; Other famous calamities included are: the Triangle Waist Company fire, the sinking of the Titanic, the multiple sinkings on the Great Lakes in 1913, the capsizing of the Eastland on the Chicago River, the wreck of the train carrying a circus in Ivanhoe, Indiana in 1918, the flu epidemic of 1918, the Wall Street explosion in 1920, the flooding of
the Mississippi at New Orleans in 1922-1927, the sinking of the S-4 in Provincetown, Massachusetts, the Everglades hurricane of 1928, the prison fire in Columbus, Ohio in 1930, the burning of the Morro Castle, the saga of the Dust Bowl and its ensuing evacuation, and the explosion aboard the Macon in 1935.; Finally covered are: the explosion and roof collapse at the Consolidated School of New London, Texas, the flight and crash of the Hindenburg, the New England hurricane of 1938, the sinking of the submarine Squalus, the railroad accidents of 1943, the circus fire at Hartford, Connecticut, an airline crash at La Guardia in 1945, the polio epidemics of the late 1940's and 1950's, the Winecoff's Hotel fire of 1946 in Atlanta, Georgia, the mine explosion in Centralia, Illinois, the explosion of the Grandcamp and the Monsanto Chemical Company in Texas City, Texas, and the commercial aviation crashes in 1947.; At the end of this volume, there is a supplementary list of American
disasters reaching back to 1618. |
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