America's Great Disasters

by Candace Floyd

The book addresses a wide variety of floods, dam failures, droughts, storms, fires, building collapses, earthquakes, volcanoes, industrial and mining accidents, and transportation calamities. Included, of course, are all the better known the Great Chicago Fire of 1871; the Blizzard of `88; the Johnstown Flood of 1889; the Galveston Hurricane of 1900; the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906; the sinking of the Titanic in 1912; the Hindenburg Explosion at Lakehurst, New Jersey, in 1937; the Texas City Explosion in 1947; the Eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1981; and the Challenger accident in 1986, etc.

176 pages, Hardcover

First published November 1, 1990