Texas disasters
Subtitle: true stories of tragedy and survival
By: Mike Cox.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Disasters series
Publisher: Insiders' Guide
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Guilford, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780762736751
Subjects: Disasters -- Texas -- History -- Anecdotes.; Texas -- History, Local -- Anecdotes.
Genres: Anecdotes.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-242).
Table of contents: title: "Most of us will perish" : lost Spanish fleet (1554); title: Yellow Jack came to Texas : the year of death (1867); title: "The town is gone" : Indianola hurricanes (1875 and 1886); title: "All washed away" : Ben Ficklin flood (1882); title: A city in ruins : Galveston hurricane (1900); title: "God seemed nigh" : Goliad tornado (1902); title: The end of the line : Locomotive 704 explosion (1912); title: Fire strikes twice : Paris goes up in flames (1916); title: Deadly drought-breaker : central Texas flood (1921); title: "Blown away" : Rocksprings tornado (1927); title: The day a generation died : New London school explosion (1937); title: Deadliest fire in Texas : Houston's Gulf Hotel blaze (1943); title: Fuel to the fire : Texas City explosion (1947); title: "They're catching hell" : Waco tornado (1953); title: Record-setting snowfall : Panhandle blizzard (1956); title: Building the Bermuda Triangle myth : SS Marine Sulphur Queen mystery (1963); title: Flash flood : tragedy in Terrell County (1965); title: Terrible tuesday : Wichita Falls tornado (1979); title: "Horizontal tornadoes" : the crash of Delta 191 (1985); title: Afterword : hurricanes Katrina and Rita (2005).