Pennsylvania Disasters : True Stories of Tragedy and Survival
by Ivory, KarenEdition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2007-03-01
Publisher(s): Globe Pequot
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Summary
Twenty-two disasters spanning more than a two centuries are brought to life in this engagingly written volume. The stories include Philadelphia's yellow fever epidemic in 1793, a series of coal-mining disasters in the early 1900s, the Centralia fires that started in 1962 and burn even today, the tragic fate of United Airlines flight 93 in 2001, and the Quecreek Mine rescue of 2002.
Author Biography
Karen Ivory, a former broadcast journalist in Philadelphia and New York, is a freelance writer happily based in the City of Brotherly Love.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | p. ix |
| "The Horrors Were Heart Rending": The Yellow Fever Epidemic (1793) | p. 1 |
| A Quarter of the City Gone: The Great Pittsburgh Fire (1845) | p. 13 |
| "The Trains Have Met!": The Camp Hill and Shohola Collisions (1856, 1864) | p. 21 |
| "A Roar Like Thunder": The Johnstown Flood (1889) | p. 31 |
| Disaster Underground: Coal Mine Calamities (1904, 1907, 1908) | p. 45 |
| "A Perfect Hell": Harrisburg Rail Yard Explosion (1905) | p. 55 |
| "Lighted in a Flash": The Boyertown Opera House Fire (1908) | p. 63 |
| The Sight was Indescribable: Eddystone and Oakdale Explosions (1917, 1918) | p. 73 |
| An Accident Leads to Tragedy: The Chester Bridge Collapse (1921) | p. 81 |
| "Hysteria was Everywhere": The Crash of the Congressional Limited (1943) | p. 87 |
| "Murdered by What was in the Air": The Donora Smog Crisis (1948) | p. 93 |
| A Fun Outing Goes Horribly Wrong: The Wreck of the Phillies Special (1962) | p. 101 |
| The Town that's on Fire: Underground Centralia Fires (Since 1962) | p. 107 |
| "Agnes Rewrote the Book": Hurricane Agnes (1972) | p. 119 |
| A Deadly Mystery: Legionnaire's Disease Outbreak (1976) | p. 125 |
| "This is the Biggie": Three Mile Island (1979) | p. 133 |
| "A Tornado Cocktail": Tornado Outbreak (1985) | p. 149 |
| "We'll Start to Turn In": The Schoolyard Crash That Killed a Senator (1991) | p. 161 |
| "There was no One to Save": The Crash of USAir Flight 427 (1994) | p. 169 |
| "A Ticking Time Bomb": First the Snow, Then the Floods (1996) | p. 177 |
| "In the Cockpit! If We Don't, We'll Die": The Crash of United Flight 93 (2001) | p. 189 |
| "We're All Nine Here": Quecreek Mine Rescue (2002) | p. 201 |
| Bibliography | p. 215 |
| About the Author | p. 227 |
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