An edition of Texas disasters: true stories of tragedy and survival (2006)

Texas disasters

true stories of tragedy and survival

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Texas disasters
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Insiders' Guide
Language
English
Pages
242

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Subjects

History, Local History, Disasters, Anecdotes, Texas, history, Natural disasters, Texas, history, local

Places

Texas

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Table of Contents

"Most of us will perish" : lost Spanish fleet (1554)
Yellow Jack came to Texas : the year of death (1867)
"The town is gone" : Indianola hurricanes (1875 and 1886)
"All washed away" : Ben Ficklin flood (1882)
A city in ruins : Galveston hurricane (1900)
"God seemed nigh" : Goliad tornado (1902)
The end of the line : Locomotive 704 explosion (1912)
Fire strikes twice : Paris goes up in flames (1916)
Deadly drought-breaker : central Texas flood (1921)
"Blown away" : Rocksprings tornado (1927)
The day a generation died : New London school explosion (1937)
Deadliest fire in Texas : Houston's Gulf Hotel blaze (1943)
Fuel to the fire : Texas City explosion (1947)
"They're catching hell" : Waco tornado (1953)
Record-setting snowfall : Panhandle blizzard (1956)
Building the Bermuda Triangle myth : SS Marine Sulphur Queen mystery (1963)
Flash flood : tragedy in Terrell County (1965)
Terrible tuesday : Wichita Falls tornado (1979)
"Horizontal tornadoes" : the crash of Delta 191 (1985)
Afterword : hurricanes Katrina and Rita (2005).

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-242).

Published in
Guilford, Conn
Series
Disasters series
Genre
Anecdotes.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
976.4
Library of Congress
F386.6 .C69 2006, F386.6.C69 2006

The Physical Object

Pagination
xix, 242 p. :
Number of pages
242

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OL17950114M
ISBN 10
0762736755
ISBN 13
9780762736751
LCCN
2006011671
Library Thing
2207590
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544611

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