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Disaster! : Stories of Destruction and Death in Nineteenth-Century New Jersey /
In Disaster!, Alan A. Siegel brings readers face-to-face with twenty-eight of the deadliest natural and human-caused calamities to strike New Jersey between 1821 and 1906. Accounts of fires, steamboat explosions, shipwrecks, train wrecks, and storms are told in the words of the people who experience...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, NJ :
Rutgers University Press,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Series Page; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; 1. Fires; Newark- October 27, 1836; Cape May City- September 5, 1856; Cape May City- August 31, 1869; Cape May City- November 9, 1878; Newton- September 22, 1873; Caven Point, Jersey City, Refi nery Fire- May 10, 1883; The Standard Oil Fire, Bayonne- July 5, 1900; 2. Steamboat Disasters; New- Jersey- Camden- March 15, 1856; Isaac Newton- Fort Lee- December 5, 1863; 3. Train Wrecks; Burlington- August 29, 1855; Hackensack Meadows- January 15, 1894; May's Landing- August 11, 1880; Absecon Island- July 30, 1896. | |
| 505 | 0 | |a Bordentown- February 21, 1901The Thoroughfare Wreck- October 28, 1906; 4. Shipwrecks; John Minturn- South of Mantoloking- February 15, 1846; Powhattan- Beach Haven- April 15, 1854; New Era- Deal Beach- November 13, 1854; New York- North of Barnegat Inlet- December 20, 1856; Vizcaya and Cornelius Hargraves- Off Barnegat Bay- October 30, 1890; Delaware- Barnegat Bay- July 8, 1898; 5. Natural Disasters; The Blizzard of '88- March 11- 14, 1888; The Great September Gale- September 3, 1821; Statewide Hurricane- September 10- 13, 1889; New Brunswick Tornado- June 19, 1835. | |
| 505 | 0 | |a Camden Tornado- July 26, 1860Camden Tornado- August 3, 1885; Cherry Hill Tornado- July 13, 1895; Sources and Suggestions for Further Reading; Index. | |
| 520 | |a In Disaster!, Alan A. Siegel brings readers face-to-face with twenty-eight of the deadliest natural and human-caused calamities to strike New Jersey between 1821 and 1906. Accounts of fires, steamboat explosions, shipwrecks, train wrecks, and storms are told in the words of the people who experienced the events firsthand, lending a sense of immediacy to each story. These and many other stories of forgotten acts of courage in the face of danger will make Disaster! an unforgettable read. | ||
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