Pennsylvania disasters : true stories of tragedy and survival /

True accounts of major disasters in Texas history are retold in this engagingly written collection. From the Johnstown floods of 1889 to the heroic actions on United Flight 193 on 9/11, Pennsylvania has been home to some of the nation's most dramatic moments. Each story reveals not only the cir...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ivory, Karen (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Guilford, Connecticut : Globe Pequot, [2015]
Edición:Second edition.
Colección:Disasters series.
Temas:
Disasters > Pennsylvania.
Natural disasters > Pennsylvania.
Accidents > Pennsylvania > History.
Catastrophes > Pennsylvanie.
Catastrophes naturelles > Pennsylvanie.
Accidents > Pennsylvanie > Histoire.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
Accidents
Disasters
Natural disasters
Pennsylvania > History, Local.
Pennsylvanie > Histoire locale.
Pennsylvania
History
Local history
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction; CHAPTER 1; The Yellow Fever Epidemic (1793); CHAPTER 2; The Great Pittsburgh Fire (1845); CHAPTER 3; The Camp Hill and Shohola Collisions (1856, 1864); CHAPTER 4; The Johnstown Flood (1889); CHAPTER 5; Coal Mine Calamities (1904, 1907, 1908); CHAPTER 6; Harrisburg Rail Yard Explosion (1905); CHAPTER 7; The Boyertown Opera House Fire (1908); CHAPTER 8; Eddystone and Oakdale Explosions (1917, 1918); CHAPTER 9; The Chester Bridge Collapse (1921); CHAPTER 10; The Crash of the Congressional Limited (1943); CHAPTER 11; The Donora Smog Crisis (1948); CHAPTER 12.
  • The Wreck of the Phillies Special (1962)CHAPTER 13; Underground Centralia Fires (Since 1962); CHAPTER 14; Hurricane Agnes (1972); CHAPTER 15; Legionnaire's Disease Outbreak (1976); CHAPTER 16; Three Mile Island (1979); CHAPTER 17; The Deadly MOVE Confrontation (1985); CHAPTER 18; Tornado Outbreak (1985); CHAPTER 19; The Schoolyard Crash That Killed a Senator (1991); CHAPTER 20; The Crash of USAir Flight 427 (1994); CHAPTER 21; First the Snow, Then the Floods (1996); CHAPTER 22; The Crash of United Flight 93 (2001); CHAPTER 23; Quecreek Mine Rescue (2002); Bibliography; About the Author.

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