Disaster FightersStories of disasters in North America, mostly in the United States, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Includes accounts of the Galveston flood, eruption of Mt. Pel©♭e, the capsizing of the Eastland, San Francisco earthquake, Triangle Shirtwaist fire, explosion of the Mont Blanc, the Spanish influenza, and the Dust Bowl. |
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