Siegel Alan A. Siegel

Disaster! (eBook, PDF)

Stories of Destruction and Death in Nineteenth-Century New Jersey

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Produktbeschreibung

By every measure, Hurricane Sandy was a disaster of epic proportions. The deadliest storm to strike the East Coast since Hurricane Diane in 1955, Sandy killed thirty-seven people and caused more than $30 billion in damages in 2012 to New Jersey alone. But earlier centuries experienced their own catastrophes. In Disaster!, Alan A. Siegel brings readers face-to-face with twenty-eight of the deadliest natural and human-caused calamities to strike New Jersey between 1821 and 1906, ranging from horrific transportation accidents to uncontrolled fires of a kind rarely seen today. As Siegel writes in his introduction, None of the stories end well there are dead and injured by the thousands as well as millions in property lost. Accounts of these fires, steamboat explosions, shipwrecks, train wrecks, and storms are told in the words of the people who experienced the events firsthand, lending a sense of immediacy to each story. Disasters bring out the worst as well as the best in people. Siegel focuses on the bravest individuals, including harbor pilot Thomas Freeborn who drowned while attempting to save fifty passengers and crew of a ship foundering on the Jersey Shore, and Warwicke Greene, a fourteen-year-old schoolboy who rescued the injured like the hero of an epic poem after a train wreck in the Hackensack Meadows. These and many other stories of forgotten acts of courage in the face of danger will make Disaster! an unforgettable read.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780813564609
• Artikelnr.: 55281537

Autorenporträt

Siegel, Alan A

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Fires Newark
October 27
1836 Cape May City
September 5
1856 Cape May City
August 31
1869 Cape May City
November 9
1878 Newton
September 22
1873 Caven Point
Jersey City
Refinery Fire
May 10
1883 The Standard Oil Fire
Bayonne
July 5
1900 2. Steamboat Disasters New-Jersey
Camden
March 15
1856 Isaac Newton
Fort Lee
December 5
1863  3. Train Wrecks Burlington
August 29
1855 Hackensack Meadows
January 15
1894 May's Landing
August 11
1880 Absecon Island
July 30
1896 Bordentown
February 21
1901 The Thoroughfare Wreck
October 28
1906 4. Shipwrecks John Minturn
South of Mantoloking
February 15
1846 Powhattan
Beach Haven
April 15
1854 New Era
Deal Beach
November 13
1854 New York
North of Barnegat Inlet
December 20
1856 Vizcaya and Cornelius Hargraves
Off Barnegat Bay
July 8
1898 Delaware
Barnegat Bay
July 8
1898 5. Natural Disasters The Blizzard of '88
March 11-14
1888 The Great September Gale
September 3
1821 Statewide Hurricane
September 10-13
1889 New Brunswick Tornado
June 19
1835 Camden Tornado
June 19
1835 Camden Tornado
August 3
1885 Cherry Hill Tornado
July 13
1895 Sources and Suggestions for Further Reading Index