Great Disasters
by Allen Howard Godbey
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About this eBook
- Author
- Godbey, Allen Howard, 1864-1948
- Title
- Great Disasters and Horrors in the World's History
- Credits
- Produced by Chris Curnow, Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- D: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere
- Subject
- Disasters
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 51246
- Release Date
- February 18, 2016
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.GREAT DISASTERS
- 2.PREFACE.
- 3.TABLE OF CONTENTS.
- 4.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. — GREAT DISASTERS
- 5.CHAPTER I. MYTHS OF THE WINDS.
- 6.CHAPTER II. CONSTANT WINDS.
- 7.CHAPTER III. PERIODIC WINDS.
- 8.CHAPTER IV. TORNADOES AND CYCLONES.
- 9.CHAPTER V. THE LOUISVILLE TORNADO.
- 10.CHAPTER VI INCIDENTS OF THE TORNADO.
- 11.CHAPTER VII. OTHER TORNADOES.
- 12.CHAPTER VIII. TROPICAL CYCLONES.
- 13.CHAPTER IX. PERILS OF THE SEA.
- 14.CHAPTER X. LIFE-SAVING MEASURES.
- 15.CHAPTER XI. GREAT SAMOAN HURRICANE.
- 16.CHAPTER XII. ELECTRIC STORMS.
- 17.CHAPTER XIII. RAIN, HAIL AND SNOW.
- 18.CHAPTER XIV. FLOODS IN THE SOUTH.
- 19.CHAPTER XV. THE FLOOD OF 1890.
- 20.CHAPTER XVI. THE JOHNSTOWN FLOOD.
- 21.CHAPTER XVII. INCIDENTS AT JOHNSTOWN.
- 22.CHAPTER XVIII. RELIEF MEASURES.
- 23.CHAPTER XIX. FAMINE AND PESTILENCE.
- 24.CHAPTER XX. THE VOLCANO.
- 25.CHAPTER XXI. GREAT ERUPTIONS OF VESUVIUS.
- 26.CHAPTER XXII. OTHER GREAT ERUPTIONS.
- 27.CHAPTER XXIII. EARTHQUAKES.
- 28.CHAPTER XXIV. EUROPEAN EARTHQUAKES.
- 29.CHAPTER XXV. EARTHQUAKES IN THE UNITED STATES AND ENGLAND.
- 30.CHAPTER XXVI. EARTHQUAKES IN TROPICAL AMERICA.
- 31.CHAPTER XXVII. PREDICTION AND PREVENTION.
- 32.CHAPTER XXVIII. THE REIGN OF LAW.
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