Disaster On Lake Erie

Author : Alvin F. Oickle
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614234841
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Disaster on Lake Erie written by Alvin F. Oickle and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05-13 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On August 9, 1841, the steamship Erie, one of the most elegant and fastest sailing between Buffalo and Chicago, departed carrying 340 passengers. Many were Swiss and German immigrants, planning to start new lives in America's heartland most never made it. The Erie erupted in flames during the night, and despite the heroic efforts of the crew of the Dewitt Clinton, 254 lives were lost. As news of this disaster spread, internationally renowned artists and writers, including Charles Dickens, were inspired to reflect on the lives lost. Historian Alvin F. Oickle's minute-by-minute account weaves together the tragic journey of the passengers, the legend that developed in the aftermath and the fury of a fire on an ocean-like lake.

Author : Wendy Koile
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1626198195
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Disasters of Ohio’s Lake Erie Islands written by Wendy Koile and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beautiful and deadly, the Lake Erie islands off the coast of Ohio have seen their fair share of disasters. The Victory Hotel on South Bass Island at Put-in-Bay was once the largest hotel in the nation. But the grand residence was reduced to ashes after a spark quickly became a raging, uncontrollable inferno. Reports of smallpox on Pelee Island resulted in mass hysteria and the quarantine of an entire island. At the Toledo Harbor Lighthouse, one light keeper was frozen in for days with his deceased colleague until he could make a desperate escape. Wendy Koile chronicles the fiercest calamities to shatter the tranquility of these solitary shores.

Author : Nanna Egidius
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Disaster on Lake Erie in 1852 written by Nanna Egidius and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Wayne Louis Kadar
Publisher : AbsolutelyAmazingebooks.com
ISBN 13 : 1945772697
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Great Lakes: Collisions, Wrecks and Disasters: Ships 400 to 998 Feet written by Wayne Louis Kadar and published by AbsolutelyAmazingebooks.com. This book was released on 2022-03-23 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Having spent lots of time in the Chicago area, I'm a big fan of the Great Lakes. These inland seas have a turbulent history and are site of many shipwrecks. This guide to the collisions, wrecks and disasters on the Great Lakes is the best I've read. Ring the ship's bell in salute to this rediscovered series by Skip Kadar." —Nicolas Gilmartin Teranzi, Online Critics Corner This meticulously researched book provides a fact-filled guide to shipwrecks on the Great Lakes. A former harbormaster, "Skip" Kadar became fascinated with the regional history and began researching ships that now lie on the bottom of the freshwater seas. That led to a series of factual books, with this being the first from AAeB. This well-illustrated volume lists the ships and their stories — including the Edmund Fitzgerald heralded in the Gordon Lightfoot song.

Author : David Geren Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780760790670
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book White Hurricane written by David Geren Brown and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Autumn gales have pursued mariners across the Great Lakes for centuries. On Friday, November 7, 1913, those gales captured their prey. After four days of winds up to 90 miles an hour, freezing temperatures, whiteout blizzard conditions, and mountainous seas, 19 ships had been lost, two dozen had been thrown ashore, 238 sailors were dead, and the city of Cleveland was confronting the worst natural disaster in its history. Writer and mariner David G. Brown combines narrative intensity with factual depth to re-create the events of the "perfect storm" that struck America's heartland."--Publisher's description

Author : Thomas Huxley Langlois
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 9 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lake Erie: Progress Towards Disaster written by Thomas Huxley Langlois and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Scott MacGregor
Publisher : Eoi Media Press Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781619847811
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tunnel to Hell written by Scott MacGregor and published by Eoi Media Press Incorporated. This book was released on 2017-10 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1898 and 1916, the city of Cleveland, needing a source of clean water for its growing industry and population, conceived of a plan to dig 200 feet underneath Lake Erie to get to a new source of fresh water. Over that time, there were several deaths due to cave ins, fires, and other accidents. Tunnel to Hell tells a story based on the worst and final of the tunnel disasters in 1916, giving the view points of both the heroes and villains in a tale of corporate greed and selfless heroism.

Author : Scott MacGregor
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1683358252
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fire on the Water written by Scott MacGregor and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel based on a true tale of heroism and invention in the tunnels beneath Lake Erie in 1916 This original graphic novel imagines the lives of blue-collar workers involved in the real-life Lake Erie tunnel disaster of 1916 in Cleveland. Author Scott MacGregor and illustrator Gary Dumm tell the intersecting stories of a brilliant African American inventor, Ben Beltran (based on the real-life Garrett Morgan, Sr.), desperate immigrants tunneling beneath Lake Erie, and corrupt overseers who risk countless lives for profit. As historical fiction, Fire on the Water sheds light not only on one of America’s earliest man-made ecological disasters but also on racism and the economic disparity between classes in the Midwest at the turn of the century.

Author : Cleveland (Ohio). Committee of the citizens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Proceedings of a Meeting written by Cleveland (Ohio). Committee of the citizens and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James L. Donahue
Publisher : Thunder Bay Press (MI)
ISBN 13 : 9781882376308
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Steaming Through Smoke & Fire: True Stories of Shipwreck & Disaster Onthe Great Lakes written by James L. Donahue and published by Thunder Bay Press (MI). This book was released on 1996 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: