The Greatest Disaster Stories Ever Told

Download or read book The Greatest Disaster Stories Ever Told written by Lamar Underwood and published by . This book was released on 2002-01-30 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brings together the most interesting, readable, & compassionate of events so catastrophic they will never be forgotten. They run the gamut from shipwrecks to industrial catastrophe. Disasters described include: the sinkings of the Titanic & the Lusitania; the Johnstown, PA flood; the 1980 eruption of Mt. St. Helens; the destruction of Galveston, TX by the deadliest hurricane in Amer. history; the B-25 bomber crash into the Empire State Bldg.; the sinking of the U.S.S. IndianapolisÓ; the runway collision between Pan Am & KLM 747s that resulted in 578 deaths; the 1996 explosion of TWA Flight 800; the Bhopal, India toxic chemical leak, which killed 2,500; the Space Shuttle ChallengerÓ tragedy; the Chicago Orphanage fire; the N.Y. Triangle fire; & more.