Texas City Texas Disaster PDF Download
Are you looking for read ebook online? Search for your book and save it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Download Texas City Texas Disaster PDF full book. Access full book title Texas City Texas Disaster.
Author | : Hugh W. Stephens |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2010-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0292773463 |
Download The Texas City Disaster, 1947 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
On April 16, 1947, a small fire broke out among bags of ammonium nitrate fertilizer in the hold of the ship Grandcamp as it lay docked at Texas City, Texas. Despite immediate attempts to extinguish the fire, it rapidly intensified until the Grandcamp exploded in a blast that caused massive loss of life and property. In the ensuing chaos, no one gave much thought to the ship in the next slip, the High Flyer. It exploded sixteen hours later. The story of the Texas City explosions—America’s worst industrial disaster in terms of casualties—has never been fully told until now. In this book, Hugh W. Stephens draws on official reports, newspaper and magazine articles, personal letters, and interviews with several dozen survivors to provide the first full account of the disaster at Texas City. Stephens describes the two explosions and the heroic efforts of Southeast Texans to rescue survivors and cope with extensive property damage. At the same time, he explores why the disaster occurred, showing how a chain of indifference and negligence made a serious industrial accident almost inevitable, while a lack of emergency planning allowed it to escalate into a major catastrophe. This gripping, cautionary tale holds important lessons for a wide reading public.
Author | : Andrew Hopkins |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Gas industry |
ISBN | : 9781922042255 |
Download Failure to Learn The BP Texas City Refinery disaster Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Linda Scher |
Publisher | : Bearport Publishing |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 2007-01-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1597163635 |
Download The Texas City Disaster Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Describes the events that occurred when a ship's cargo of fertilizer caught fire and exploded in Texas City, Texas, in 1947.
Author | : Fire Prevention and Engineering Bureau of Texas, Dallas |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 58 |
Release | : 1948 |
Genre | : Disasters |
ISBN | : |
Download Texas City, Texas, Disaster Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 1953 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Download Texas City Disaster ... Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Erik Larson |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2000-07-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0375708278 |
Download Isaac's Storm Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
From the bestselling author of The Devil in the White City, here is the true story of the deadliest hurricane in history. National Bestseller September 8, 1900, began innocently in the seaside town of Galveston, Texas. Even Isaac Cline, resident meteorologist for the U.S. Weather Bureau failed to grasp the true meaning of the strange deep-sea swells and peculiar winds that greeted the city that morning. Mere hours later, Galveston found itself submerged in a monster hurricane that completely destroyed the town and killed over six thousand people in what remains the greatest natural disaster in American history--and Isaac Cline found himself the victim of a devastating personal tragedy. Using Cline's own telegrams, letters, and reports, the testimony of scores of survivors, and our latest understanding of the science of hurricanes, Erik Larson builds a chronicle of one man's heroic struggle and fatal miscalculation in the face of a storm of unimaginable magnitude. Riveting, powerful, and unbearably suspenseful, Isaac's Storm is the story of what can happen when human arrogance meets the great uncontrollable force of nature.
Author | : Patricia Bellis Bixel |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 581 |
Release | : 2013-02-08 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0292753969 |
Download Galveston and the 1900 Storm Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Spur Award Nominee: How Galveston, Texas, reinvented itself after historic disaster: “A riveting narrative . . . Absorbing [and] well-illustrated.” —Library Journal The Galveston storm of 1900 reduced a cosmopolitan and economically vibrant city to a wreckage-strewn wasteland where survivors struggled without shelter, power, potable water, or even the means to summon help. At least 6,000 of the city's 38,000 residents died in the hurricane. Many observers predicted that Galveston would never recover and urged that the island be abandoned. Instead, the citizens of Galveston seized the opportunity, not just to rebuild, but to reinvent the city in a thoughtful, intentional way that reformed its government, gave women a larger role in its public life, and made it less vulnerable to future storms and flooding. This extensively illustrated history tells the full story of the 1900 Storm and its long-term effects. The authors draw on survivors’ accounts to vividly recreate the storm and its aftermath. They describe the work of local relief agencies, aided by Clara Barton and the American Red Cross, and show how their short-term efforts grew into lasting reforms. At the same time, the authors reveal that not all Galvestonians benefited from the city’s rebirth, as African Americans found themselves increasingly shut out from civic participation by Jim Crow segregation laws. As the centennial of the 1900 Storm prompts remembrance and reassessment, this complete account will be essential and fascinating reading for all who seek to understand Galveston’s destruction and rebirth. Runner-up, Spur Award for Best Western Nonfiction—Contemporary, Western Writers Of America
Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 1955 |
Genre | : Disasters |
ISBN | : |
Download Texas City Disaster Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Considers legislation to provide for settlement of claims for damages resulting from the explosion of fertilizers at Texas City, Tex., on Apr. 16 and 17, 1947.
Author | : Rebecca Felix |
Publisher | : Millbrook Press ™ |
Total Pages | : 35 |
Release | : 2018-02-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1541528905 |
Download Hurricane Harvey Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In August 2017, Hurricane Harvey hit the United States. This Category 4 hurricane brought devastating winds and rain. Catastrophic flooding occurred in Houston, Texas, and throughout much of Harris County as well in as parts of Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Arkansas. Descriptive, informational text takes readers through the progression of events during the hurricane and its aftermath.
Author | : Bobby H. Johnson |
Publisher | : Stephen F. Austin University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9781936205677 |
Download A Texas Tragedy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
than in half the creeds? and in the scriptural promise that ?Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.?. For the past forty years, Dr. Johnson has recorded hundreds of oral history interviews with New Londoners and East Texans and filed mental notes as he heard conversations about things that happened on that that day when infancy protected his awareness of the horror in New London. I was in first grade in Leonard, Texas, 125 miles away, never conscious of the tragedy, probably because my parents wanted to shelter me. It was not until six years later when I was in elementary school in Hooks, Texas, that one of my teachers told my class the harrowing story of New London. After her dramatic tale, we unnerved students cautiously walked the hallways sniffing the air for scents of odorized gas. As an insider, Dr. Johnson was prepared for his role as the future New London dramatist by studies in history and journalism leading to a Ph.D.