The Complete Story of the Galveston Horror.
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, Galveston Horror Published by : United Pub. of Amer. (usa) , 1900 Physical details: 386 p.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| 976.9 Cha Kentucky | 976.902092 Mor Boone : | 976.922 Rit Coal camp kids : | 976.413 Com The Complete Story of the Galveston Horror. | 977 Hav Voices on the river. | 977 His Historic towns of the Western states | 977 Mal Mississippi currents |
Written by the survivors
Incidents of the awful tornado, flood and cyclone disaster, personal experiences of survivors, horrible looting of dead bodies and the robbing of empty homes, pestilence from so many decaying bodies unburied, barge captains compelled by armed men to tow dead bodies to sea, millions of dollars raised to aid the suffering survivors, President McKinley orders army rations and army tents issued to survivors and orders US troops to protect the people and property, tales of the survivors from galveston, adrift all night on rafts, acts ofvalor, United States soldiers drowned, great herosim, great vandalism, great horror, a second johnstown flood, but worse; hundreds of men, women and children drowned, no way of excape, only death! death! Everywhere!