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true stories of tragedy and survival

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Globe Pequot
Language
English

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Cover of: Texas disasters
Texas disasters: true stories of tragedy and survival
2015, Globe Pequot
in English - Second edition.
Cover of: Texas disasters
Texas disasters: true stories of tragedy and survival
2006, Insiders' Guide
in English - 1st ed.

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Table of Contents

"Most of us will perish": lost Spanish fleet
Yellow Jack came to Texas: the year of death
"The town is gone": Indianola hurricanes (1875 and 1886)
"All washed away": Ben Ficklin flood
A city in ruins: Galveston hurricane
"God seemed nigh": Goliad tornado
The end of the line: Locomotive 704 explosion
Fire strikes twice: Paris goes up in flames
Deadly drought-breaker: Central Texas flood
"Blown away": Rocksprings tornado
The day a generation died: New London School explosion
Deadliest fire in Texas: Houston's Gulf Hotel blaze
Fuel to the fire: Texas City explosion
"They're catching hell": Waco tornado
Record-setting snowfall: Panhandle blizzard
Building the Bermuda Triangle myth: SS Marine Sulphur Queen mystery
Flash flood: tragedy in Terrell County
Terrible tuesday: Witchita Falls tornado
"Horizontal tornadoes": the crash of Delta 191
One writer's experience: Hurricane Ike
A community comes together: West explosion.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references.

Published in
Guilford, Connecticut

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
976.4
Library of Congress
F386.6 .C69 2015, F386.6.C69 2015

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Pagination
pages cm

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL30395424M
Internet Archive
texasdisasterstr0000coxm
ISBN 13
9781493013166, 9781493013173
LCCN
2015018269

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