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Author : Carole Marsh
Publisher : Carole Marsh Books
ISBN 13 : 0793309581
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)
Download or read book Pennsylvania's Disasters and Catastrophes written by Carole Marsh and published by Carole Marsh Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Karen Ivory
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493013211
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)
Download or read book Pennsylvania Disasters written by Karen Ivory and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: True accounts of major disasters in Pennsylvania history are retold in this engagingly written collection. From the Johnstown floods of 1889 to the heroic actions on United Flight 193 on 9/11, Pennsylvania has been home to some of the nation's most dramatic moments. Each story reveals not only the circumstances surrounding the disaster and the magnitude of the devastation but also the courage and ingenuity displayed by those who survived and the heroism of those who helped others, often risking their own lives in rescue efforts.
Author : John Stuart Richards
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625844247
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)
Download or read book Death in the Mines written by John Stuart Richards and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2007-02-28 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vivid accounts of the dangers that miners faced on a daily basis in the northern, southern, and middle coal fields of eastern Pennsylvania. Since 1870, mining disasters have claimed the lives of over 30,000 men and boys who toiled underground in the anthracite mines of Pennsylvania. Sometimes they survived; many times they did not. The constant threat of fire, explosion, collapsed rock and deadly gas brought miners face to face with death on a daily basis. Through original journal and newspaper accounts, J. Stuart Richards’s Death in the Mines revisits Pennsylvania’s most notorious mining accidents and rescue attempts from 1869 to 1943. From the fire at Avondale Colliery that resulted in the first law for regulation and inspection of mines, to the gas explosion at Lytle Mine in Primrose that killed fourteen men, Richards reveals multiple facets of Pennsylvania’s most perilous profession. Richards, whose family has worked in the mines since 1870, offers a startling yet sensitive tribute to an industry and occupation that is often overlooked and underappreciated.
Author : J. Stephen Kroll-Smith
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813184738
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Real Disaster Is Above Ground written by J. Stephen Kroll-Smith and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1950s Centralia was a small town, like many others in the anthracite region of Pennsylvania. But since the 1960s, it has been consumed, outwardly and inwardly by a fire that has inexorably spread in the abandoned mines beneath it. The earth smokes, subsides, and breathes poisonous gases. No less destructive has been the spread of dissension and enmity among the townspeople. The Real Disaster Above Ground tells the story of the fire and the tragic failure of all efforts to counter it. This study of the Centralia fire represents the most thorough canvass of the documentary materials and the community that has appeared. The authors report on the futile efforts of residents to reach a common understanding of an underground threat that was not readily visible and invited multiple interpretations. They trace the hazard management strategies of government agencies that, ironically, all too often created additional threats to the welfare of Centralians. They report on the birth and demise of community organizations, each with its own solution to the problem and its diehard partisans. The final solution, now being put into effect, is to abandon the town and relocate its people. Centralia's environmental disaster, the authors argue, is not a local or isolated phenomenon. It warns of the danger lurking in our own technology when safeguards fail and disaster management policy is not in place to respond to failure, as the examples of Chernobyl and Bhopal have clearly demonstrated. The lessons in this study of the fate of a small town in Pennsylvania are indeed sobering. They should be pondered by a variety of social scientists and planners, by all those dealing with the behavior of people under stress and those responsible for the welfare of the public.
Author : Carole Marsh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780793309597
Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)
Download or read book Pennsylvania's (Most Devastating!) Disasters and (Most Calamitous!) Catastrophies! written by Carole Marsh and published by . This book was released on 1990-09-01 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Herman Dieck
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271045396
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Johnstown Flood written by Herman Dieck and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. S. Ogilvie
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271045388
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)
Download or read book History of the Great Flood in Johnstown, Pa. , May 31, 1889, by Which Over Ten Thousand Lives Were Lost written by J. S. Ogilvie and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John James McLaurin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Story of Johnstown written by John James McLaurin and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After exploring the early history of the settlement and industrialization of Johnstown, the author presents in great detail the catastrophic flood that destroyed the town in 1889 and the aftermath of this disaster.
Author : Pat Farabaugh
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439673799
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)
Download or read book Disastrous Floods and the Demise of Steel in Johnstown written by Pat Farabaugh and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-10-18 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Johnstown is synonymous with floodwaters and steel. When the city was decimated by a flood of biblical proportions in 1889, it was considered one of the worst natural disasters in American history and gained global attention. Sadly, that deluge was only the first of three major floods to claim lives and wreak havoc in the region. The destruction in the wake of the St. Patrick's Day flood in 1936 was the impetus for groundbreaking federal and local flood control measures. Multiple dam failures, including the Laurel Run Dam in July 1977, left a flooded Johnstown with a failing steel industry in ruins. Author Pat Farabaugh charts the harrowing history of Johnstown's great floods and the effects on its economic lifeblood.
Author : Pennsylvania. Inspectors of Mines
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)
Download or read book Report of William Stein, Edward Roderick, and Edward Brennan written by Pennsylvania. Inspectors of Mines and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
