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  • The 1924 Tornado in Lorain & Sandusky: Deadliest in Ohio History

    par Betsy D'Annibale ...
    Collections series Disaster
    June 28, 1924, dawned hot and sunny, with fluffy white clouds hovering over a blue and inviting Lake Erie. For two Ohio communities, Lorain and Sandusky, the day ended in unimaginable disaster. In the late afternoon, the blue sky turned dark, and the wispy white puffs morphed into a mass of black thunderclouds as a monster formed on the lake. An F4 tornado, unexpected and not understood, was born ... En savoir plus

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  • Nine Lives

    Death and Life in New Orleans

    par Dan Baum ...
    The hidden history of the haunted and beloved city of New Orleans, told through the intersecting lives of nine remarkable characters.“Nine Lives is stunning work. Dan Baum has immersed himself in New Orleans, the most fascinating city in the United States, and illuminated it in a way that is as innovative as Tom Wolfe on hot rods and Truman Capote on a pair of murderers. Full of stylistic ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

  • November's Fury

    The Deadly Great Lakes Hurricane of 1913

    par Michael Schumacher ...
    On Thursday, November 6, the Detroit News forecasted “moderate to brisk” winds for the Great Lakes. On Friday, the Port Huron Times-Herald predicted a “moderately severe” storm. Hourly the warnings became more and more dire. Weather forecasting was in its infancy, however, and radio communication was not much better; by the time it became clear that a freshwater hurricane of epic proportions was ... En savoir plus

    $18.99 CAD

  • The Great Circus Train Wreck of 1918

    Tragedy on the Indiana Lakeshore

    par Richard M Lytle ...
    What really happened on the circus train in 1918? Read the story of this tragedy for the entertainment industry of the time. In the cool, pre-dawn hours on a June night in 1918, a train engineer closed his cab window as he chugged toward Hammond, Indiana. He drifted to sleep, and his train bore down on the idle Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus Train. Soon after, the sleeping engineer's locomotive plowed ... En savoir plus

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  • A Fire Strikes the Chicago Stock Yards

    A History of Flame and Folly in the Jungle

    par John F Hogan, Alex A. Burkholder ...
    This compelling history chronicles some of the most intense and tragic fires in Chicago's storied meatpacking district.Chicago's Union Stock Yards made the city "the hog butcher of the world," but the notoriety came at a grievous cost. From their opening on Christmas Day of 1865 to their final closure in July of 1971, The Yards were the site of nearly three hundred extra-alarm fires. That infamous ... En savoir plus

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  • Ohio Train Disasters

    par Jane Ann Turzillo ...
    Collections series Transportation
    In nearly a century of heavy rail travel in Ohio, a dozen train accidents stand out as the most horrific. In the bitter cold, just after Christmas 1876, eleven cars plunged seventy-five feet into the frigid water below. The stoves burst into flames, burning to death all who were not killed by the fall. Fires cut short the lives of forty-three people in the head-on Doodlebug collision in Cuyahoga ... En savoir plus

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  • Sea of Storms

    A History of Hurricanes in the Greater Caribbean from Columbus to Katrina

    par Stuart B. Schwartz ...
    Collections series The Lawrence Stone Lectures
    A panoramic social history of hurricanes in the CaribbeanThe diverse cultures of the Caribbean have been shaped as much by hurricanes as they have by diplomacy, commerce, or the legacy of colonial rule. In this panoramic work of social history, Stuart Schwartz examines how Caribbean societies have responded to the dangers of hurricanes, and how these destructive storms have influenced the region's ... En savoir plus

    $37.39 CAD

  • Oak Lawn Tornado of 1967

    par Kevin Korst ...
    Collections series Images of America
    The morning of April 21, 1967, was crisp and clear, marking the arrival of spring. As the day progressed, dark clouds covered the skies over Oak Lawn, and a deadly tornado touched down in the village just before 5:30 p.m. Cutting through the intersection of 95th Street and Southwest Highway and striking elsewhere, the storm left mountains of debris and over 30 people dead in its wake. Oak Lawn ... En savoir plus

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  • West Plains Dance Hall Explosion

    par Lin Waterhouse ...
    The real-life mystery of a catastrophic blast in 1920s Missouri that killed dozens at a Friday night dance and shattered an Ozark town.One rainy night in 1928, a crowd, many of them the sons and daughters of prominent local citizens, gathered for a weekly dance held at Bond Hall. The explosion that occurred as midnight approached transformed Bond Hall into a raging inferno, left thirty-nine dead, ... En savoir plus

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  • Cincinnati's Great Disasters

    par Betty Ann Smiddy ...
    Cincinnati�s Great Disasters explores catastrophes from 1905 to 1937, featuring floods, tornadoes, fires, explosions, winter storms, and crashes. Although tragic, disasters became popular postcard subjects in the early 1900s, with many of these photograph postcards being taken by professional photographers. The postcards documenting the 1907 and 1913 floods make up the bulk of this book, as these ... En savoir plus

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  • Paris of the Plains

    Kansas City from Doughboys to Expressways

    par John Simonson ...
    From the end of the Great War to the final years of the 1950s, Kansas Citians lived in a manner worthy of a place called Paris of the Plains. The title did more than nod to the perfumed ladies who shopped at Harzfeld's Parisian or the one-thousand-foot television antenna nicknamed the "Eye-full Tower." It spoke to the character of a town that worked for Boss Tom and danced for Count Basie but ... En savoir plus

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  • Columbus and the Great Flood of 1913

    The Disaster that Reshaped the Ohio Valley

    par Conrade C. Hinds ...
    Collections series Disaster
    Beginning on Easter Sunday, March 23, 1913, Columbus and the Ohio Valley endured a downpour that would produce the largest flood in one hundred years. Heavy rains came on the heels of an especially cold winter, resulting in a torrent of runoff over saturated and frozen ground. Rivers and streams quickly overflowed and levees failed, sending tsunami-like floodwater into unsuspecting communities and ... En savoir plus

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