Binding: Kindle Edition Format: Kindle eBook Languages:EnglishPublished Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 354 Publication Date: January 23, 2012 Release Date: January 23, 2012
Product Description: A VIVID AND GRAPHIC DESCRIPTION OF FOUR APPALLING FIRES THAT CHANGED AMERICA, WITH THE HEARTRENDING ACCOUNT OF THE PANIC STRICKEN MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN, WHO WERE SEPARATED FROM THEIR LOVED ONES TO FACE DEATH ALONE, AND WERE HURLED INTO ETERNITY WITHOUT WARNING.
THE HOBOKEN DOCKS FIRE. The destruction of the Hoboken Docks, with its appalling loss of life and injury to the living, is an event calamitous beyond precedent in the list of American fires, and has stirred the public heart to its swiftest pulsations of sympathy and grief. The memorable scenes of that terrible night at the Hoboken Docks, can never be removed from the minds of those who witnessed them.
THE BURNING OF THE SULTANA. The events of April, 1865, The most appalling marine disaster in American history the loss of the steamer “ Sultana” and over 1,700 passengers, mostly exchanged prisoners of war. Her decks were covered with cots and beds for the ghastly skeletons called “ paroled prisoners.” Wherever it was possible to stow away a human being, these were men who had fought starvation, cold, vermin and filth. A large percent of her living freight were the former captives of Castle Morgan prison. With her decks, above and below, crowded to discomfort, with weak bodied, gaunt, and shallow faced men, the Sultana steamed up the broad Mississippi. Every league of progress brought hope to her passengers: visions of a gray haired mother whose heart has been bursting to know the fate of her boy; visions of a sister into whose eyes tears welled up at the mention of his name, came to the men and gave to them thoughts of a new life.
THE RICHMOND THEATER FIRE. December 26, 1811. The playhouse in the city of Richmond was crowded to capacity. There could not have been less than 600 persons in the house, just before the conclusion of the play, the scenery caught fire, and in a few minutes the whole building was engulfed in flames. It is already ascertained that 61 persons were devoured by that most terrific element of fire. Of the 72 who died in the fire 54 were women and 18 were men. Among the victims were Virginia's sitting governor, George William Smith, and former senator Abraham B. Venable; the governor had purportedly tried to save his child from the burning fire. The flames spread with almost the rapidity of lightning ; and the fire was falling from the ceiling upon the performers, many supposed it to be a part of the play, and were for a little time restrained from flight by a cry from the stage that there was no danger. The performers and their attendants in vain endeavored to tear down the scenery. The fire flashed in every part of the house with a rapidity, horrible and astonishing. No person, who was not present at the Richmond theater, can form any idea of this scene of human distress.
THE BROOKLYN THEATER FIRE. The Brooklyn Theater Fire was a catastrophic theater fire that broke out on the evening of December 5, 1876 in the city of Brooklyn, New York, United States. The conflagration claimed the lives of at least 278 individuals, with some accounts reporting more than 300 dead. The Brooklyn Theater Fire ranks third in fatalities, among fires occurring in theaters and other public assembly buildings in the United States.
ALSO INCLUDED: (FULL BOOK): LOSS OF THE SULTANA AND REMINISCENCES OF SURVIVORS. BY Chester D. Berry
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