Disaster

Our Disaster American history book series chronicles the tragedies in history that devastated a place in the United States. Discover how the circus disaster of the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus Train contributed to the demise of the circus industry. Peer into the waters of Cape Cod’s “Graveyard of Ships”, then meet the survivors of the Wyoming Blizzard of 1949.  Pay tribute to the first responders who rescued campers during the 1959 Yellowstone Earthquake as well as the firefighters who battled the great Strand Theatre Fire in 1941. From vicious tornadoes to the greatest storms in the past century, these disaster books revive the voices of those lost to historical tragedies. [View all Disaster books]
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Cover image for The Wreck of the Circus Ship Royal Tar, isbn: 9781467158510
The Wreck of the Circus Ship Royal Tar
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Cover image for Shipwreck on the Potomac, isbn: 9781467158671
Shipwreck on the Potomac
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Cover image for The Wyoming Bomber Crash of 1943, isbn: 9781467158992
The Wyoming Bomber Crash of 1943
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Cover image for The Great Memorial Day Fire of 1945 and Other Schuylkill County Disasters, isbn: 9781467158831
The Great Memorial Day Fire of 1945 and Other Schuylkill County Disasters
$24.99

The Great Memorial Day Fire of 1945 and Other Schuylkill County Disasters

9781467158831

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Schuylkill County is no stranger to disaster.

Schuylkill County is no stranger to disaster. Protected by volunteers since 1811, residents have faced block-burning conflagrations like the Great Memorial Day Fire of 1945, which consumed sixty-seven buildings in the Mahanoy City Business District, and commercial airplane crashes like United Flight 624 near Ashland, with no survivors. The Red Church propane truck explosion near Orwigsburg caused twelve fatalities, and the Reading Railroad passenger train collision with a gasoline truck in Port Carbon sparked death and destruction, as well as a frantic search for burning money.

Telling these stories with the help of rare and many never-before-seen images, authors and veteran firefighters Michael R. Glore and Michael J. Kitsock revisit some of the region’s most harrowing catastrophes.


Cover image for The Great Memorial Day Fire of 1945 and Other Schuylkill County Disasters, isbn: 9781467158831