Texas disasters
Subtitle: true stories of tragedy and survival
By: Mike Cox
Edition: Second edition.
Publisher: Globe Pequot
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Guilford, Connecticut
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781493013166; 9781493013173
Subjects: Anecdotes; Local History; Disasters; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: "Most of us will perish": lost Spanish fleet; title: Yellow Jack came to Texas: the year of death; title: "The town is gone": Indianola hurricanes (1875 and 1886); title: "All washed away": Ben Ficklin flood; title: A city in ruins: Galveston hurricane; title: "God seemed nigh": Goliad tornado; title: The end of the line: Locomotive 704 explosion; title: Fire strikes twice: Paris goes up in flames; title: Deadly drought-breaker: Central Texas flood; title: "Blown away": Rocksprings tornado; title: The day a generation died: New London School explosion; title: Deadliest fire in Texas: Houston's Gulf Hotel blaze; title: Fuel to the fire: Texas City explosion; title: "They're catching hell": Waco tornado; title: Record-setting snowfall: Panhandle blizzard; title: Building the Bermuda Triangle myth: SS Marine Sulphur Queen mystery; title: Flash flood: tragedy in Terrell County; title: Terrible tuesday: Witchita Falls tornado; title: "Horizontal tornadoes": the crash of Delta 191; title: One writer's experience: Hurricane Ike; title: A community comes together: West explosion.