Texas Disasters True Stories of Tragedy and Survival

Name: Texas Disasters True Stories of Tragedy and Survival
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ISBN: 9780762736751

ISBN-10: 0762736755

ISBN-13: 9780762736751

Edition: 2006

Authors: Mike Cox

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The enormity of Texas's many major disasters are an appropriate match for the state's large size. This is an area of the country where tornadoes are a frequent threat, but in addition to the many violent twisters, residents have experienced fires, floods, drought, blizzards, shipwrecks, and other devastating events, including a yellow fever epidemic in 1867, which earned that year the grim moniker "The Year of Death." Twenty dramatic true stories are retold in this well-researched collection, including: The deadly quarter-mile-wide tornado that roared through the town of Goliad in 1902, killing 114 people, injuring 230, and demolishing 150 structures. A 1937 natural gas explosion at a…

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List price: $13.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Globe Pequot Press, The
Publication date: 9/1/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.044
Language: English

Mike Cox has authored twenty-one nonfiction books over a forty-year writing career. His best-selling work is a two-volume history of the Texas Rangers: Wearing the Cinco Peso and Time of the Rangers. He lives in Fredericksburg, in the Texas Hill Country and works as a spokesman for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.



Preface


Introduction


Map



"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)


Afterword: Hurricanes Katrina and Rita (2005)



Other Major Texas Disasters


Bibliography


About the Author