Pennsylvania Disasters
True Stories of Tragedy and Survival
Ivory, Karen
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BOOK SUMMARY
Twenty-two disasters spanning more than a two centuries are brought to life in this engagingly written volume. The stories include Philadelphia's yellow fever epidemic in 1793, a series of coal-mining disasters in the early 1900s, the Centralia fires that
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Twenty-two disasters spanning more than a two centuries are brought to life in this engagingly written volume. The stories include Philadelphia's yellow fever epidemic in 1793, a series of coal-mining disasters in the early 1900s, the Centralia fires that started in 1962 and burn even today, the tragic fate of United Airlines flight 93 in 2001, and the Quecreek Mine rescue of 2002.
BACK COVER
Its only human to be fascinated by disastersand uplifted by reports of survival in the face of overwhelming circumstances. Karen Ivory takes you back to Pennsylvanias most catastrophic events, vividly re-creating the moments that changed the Keystone State forever. The twenty-two true stories in Pennsylvania Disasters are a chilling reminder to expect the unexpected and to respect the powerful, often deadly forces of nature. Experience the drama of:The Johnstown flood that killed more than 2,000 people The toxic smog that blanketed Donora and left hundreds gravely ill or deadA baseball outing gone wrongthe terrible train wreck of the Phillies Special A dangerous underground inferno that has been burning since 1962 Three Mile Islandthe most serious accident to take place at a U.S. commercial nuclear power plantThe final heart-wrenching minutes of September 11s Flight 93
AUTHOR BIO
Karen Ivory, a former broadcast journalist in Philadelphia and New York, is a freelance writer happily based in the City of Brotherly Love.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1: The Yellow Fever Epidemic (1793)
Chapter 2: The Great Pittsburgh Fire (1845)
Chapter 3: The Camp Hill & Shohola Collisions (1856 and 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 & 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 (1962 present)
Chapter 14: Hurricane Agnes (1972)
Chapter 15: Legionnaires Disease Outbreak (1976)
Chapter 16: Three Mile Island (1979)
Chapter 17: Tornado Outbreak (1985)
Chapter 18: The Schoolyard Crash that Killed a Senator (1991)
Chapter 19: The Crash of US Air Flight 427 (1994)
Chapter 20: First the Snow, Then the Floods (1996)
Chapter 21: The Heroic Crash of United Flight 93 (2001)
Chapter 22: Quecreek Mine Rescue (2002)
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0762742860
ISBN(13-digit): 9780762742868
Dewey Decimal: 974.8
Library of Congress: 2006100893
Book Publisher: Globe Pequot Pr
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 225
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