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Texas disasters [electronic resource] : true stories of tragedy and survival / Mike Cox

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Cox, Mike, 1948-
Published
Guilford, Connecticut : Globe Pequot, [2015]
Edition
Second edition.
Physical Description
xx, 263 pages : illustrations, maps 24 cm.
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Contents
"Most of us will perish": lost Spanish fleet (1554) -- Yellow Jack came to Texas: the year of death (1867) -- "The town is gone": Indianola hurricanes (1875 and 1886) -- "All washed away": Ben Ficklin flood (1882) -- A city in ruins: Galveston hurricane (1900) -- "God seemed nigh": Goliad tornado (1902) -- The end of the line: Locomotive 704 explosion (1912) -- Fire strikes twice: Paris goes up in flames (1916) -- Deadly drought-breaker: Central Texas flood (1921) -- "Blown away": Rocksprings tornado (1927) -- The day a generation died: New London School explosion (1937) -- Deadliest fire in Texas: Houston's Gulf Hotel blaze (1943) -- Fuel to the fire: Texas City explosion (1947) -- "They're catching hell": Waco tornado (1953) -- Record-setting snowfall: Panhandle blizzard (1956) -- Building the Bermuda Triangle myth: SS Marine Sulphur Queen mystery (1963) -- Flash flood: tragedy in Terrell County (1965) -- Terrible Tuesday: Witchita Falls tornado (1979) -- "Horizontal tornadoes": the crash of Delta 191 (1985) -- One writer's experience: Hurricane Ike (2008) -- A community comes together: West explosion (2013).
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9781493013166 (pbk.)
9781493013173 (e-book)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-263)
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