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Book Ashcroft s Official Railway Directory for

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Book A History of Travel in America

Download or read book A History of Travel in America written by Seymour Dunbar and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ashcroft s Railway Directory for

Download or read book Ashcroft s Railway Directory for written by and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Angola Horror

    Book Details:
  • Author : Charity Vogel
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2013-08-15
  • ISBN : 0801469759
  • Pages : 312 pages

Download or read book The Angola Horror written by Charity Vogel and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On December 18, 1867, the Buffalo and Erie Railroad’s eastbound New York Express derailed as it approached the high truss bridge over Big Sister Creek, just east of the small settlement of Angola, New York, on the shores of Lake Erie. The last two cars of the express train were pitched completely off the tracks and plummeted into the creek bed below. When they struck bottom, one of the wrecked cars was immediately engulfed in flames as the heating stoves in the coach spilled out coals and ignited its wooden timbers. The other car was badly smashed. About fifty people died at the bottom of the gorge or shortly thereafter, and dozens more were injured. Rescuers from the small rural community responded with haste, but there was almost nothing they could do but listen to the cries of the dying—and carry away the dead and injured thrown clear of the fiery wreck. The next day and in the weeks that followed, newspapers across the country carried news of the "Angola Horror," one of the deadliest railway accidents to that point in U.S. history. In a dramatic historical narrative, Charity Vogel tells the gripping, true-to-life story of the wreck and the characters involved in the tragic accident. Her tale weaves together the stories of the people—some unknown; others soon to be famous—caught up in the disaster, the facts of the New York Express’s fateful run, the fiery scenes in the creek ravine, and the subsequent legal, legislative, and journalistic search for answers to the question: what had happened at Angola, and why? The Angola Horror is a classic story of disaster and its aftermath, in which events coincide to produce horrific consequences and people are forced to respond to experiences that test the limits of their endurance. Vogel sets the Angola Horror against a broader context of the developing technology of railroads, the culture of the nation’s print media, the public policy legislation of the post–Civil War era, and, finally, the culture of death and mourning in the Victorian period. The Angola Horror sheds light on the psyche of the American nation. The fatal wreck of an express train nine years later, during a similar bridge crossing in Ashtabula, Ohio, serves as a chilling coda to the story.

Book A History of Travel in America

Download or read book A History of Travel in America written by Seymour Dunbar and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "New edition." Bibliography: p. [1445]-[1481].

Book British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books

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Book Ashcroft s Official Railway Directory

Download or read book Ashcroft s Official Railway Directory written by and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of Books in the Mercantile Library  of the City of New York   Supplement  Accessions  March 1866 to October 1869  Accessions to Dec  15  1869

Download or read book Catalogue of Books in the Mercantile Library of the City of New York Supplement Accessions March 1866 to October 1869 Accessions to Dec 15 1869 written by Mercantile Library Association (NEW YORK) and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 982 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum

Download or read book Catalogue of Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of the Mercantile Library in New York  Supplement

Download or read book Catalogue of the Mercantile Library in New York Supplement written by New York. Mercantile Library Association and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Second Supplement to the Catalogue of Books in the Mercantile Library of the City of New York

Download or read book Second Supplement to the Catalogue of Books in the Mercantile Library of the City of New York written by Mercantile Library Association of the City of New-York and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Supplement to the Catalogue of Books in the Mercantile Library of the City of New York

Download or read book Supplement to the Catalogue of Books in the Mercantile Library of the City of New York written by Mercantile Library Association of the City of New-York and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book     Catalogue of Printed Books

Download or read book Catalogue of Printed Books written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Teacher s List  Containing a Calendar of All Executive and Examining Bodies  Universities     Colleges  Public     Schools     Together with a Complete Alphabetical Directory of     Teachers  and a List of School Boards Throughout the Kingdom  Edited by P  Bevan

Download or read book The Teacher s List Containing a Calendar of All Executive and Examining Bodies Universities Colleges Public Schools Together with a Complete Alphabetical Directory of Teachers and a List of School Boards Throughout the Kingdom Edited by P Bevan written by George Phillips BEVAN and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book List of Serials

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  • Author : Stanford University. Libraries
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1916
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 176 pages

Download or read book List of Serials written by Stanford University. Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book British Museum

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  • Pages : 808 pages

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Book Catalogue of Books in the Portland Public Library

Download or read book Catalogue of Books in the Portland Public Library written by Portland Public Library (Portland, Me.) and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: