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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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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
- 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.
- Camden Tornado- July 26, 1860Camden Tornado- August 3, 1885; Cherry Hill Tornado- July 13, 1895; Sources and Suggestions for Further Reading; Index.