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Book Cleveland s Greatest Disasters

Download or read book Cleveland s Greatest Disasters written by John Stark Bellamy and published by Gray & Company. This book was released on 2009 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts sixteen of the most tragic disasters in the history of Cleveland, Ohio, including the Ashtabula Bridge disaster, the Cleveland Clinic fire, and the Terminal Tower tragedy, among others.

Book Cleveland Calamities

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alan F. Dutka
  • Publisher : Disaster
  • Release : 2014
  • ISBN : 9781626193369
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Cleveland Calamities written by Alan F. Dutka and published by Disaster. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Stories of Cleveland's greatest blizzards, most destructive tornadoes, nastiest snow storms, worst floods and many more of the city's calamities"--

Book Cleveland Area Disasters

Download or read book Cleveland Area Disasters written by Calvin Rydbom and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Images of America: Cleveland Area Disasters looks back at the historic disasters to strike Cleveland in the first half of the 20th century. It documents the tornados, fires, cave-ins, accidents, and explosions that befell the region during that period. Most Clevelanders have heard stories of the Colinwood school fire, the Lorain tornado, the Cleveland Clinic fire, and the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey fire; however, over the decades, the true events and the tall tales that followed have become blurred. Some disasters, such as the West 117th Street explosion and the Waterworks Tunnel cave-ins, seem almost completely forgotten. Although tragic, the disasters in this book affected the lives of Clevelanders and often generated changes for the good, which prevented these sorts of tragedies from occurring again. Sadly, in some instances, they did not.

Book The Last Days of Cleveland

Download or read book The Last Days of Cleveland written by John Stark Bellamy and published by Gray & Company. This book was released on 2010 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #6 in this Cleveland crime and disaster series includes 15 stories. Sometimes gruesome, often surprising, these tales are meticulously researched and delivered in a literate and entertaining style. Meet a daring Jazz Age stick-up man, a murderous grandmother, an ageless fire chief addicted to profanity, and other unforgettable characters.

Book Disasters in Cleveland History

Download or read book Disasters in Cleveland History written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Images of the fires, explosions, floods, and other calamities that have left their mark on the city over the years. Includes the infamous mid-20th century Cuyahoga River fires, the Collinwood School fire of 1908, the Cleveland Clinic Disaster of 1929, the Waterworks Tunnel disaster of 1916, and the East Ohio Gas Co. explosion and fires of 1944"--Title screen.

Book They Died Crawling  and Other Tales of Cleveland Woe

Download or read book They Died Crawling and Other Tales of Cleveland Woe written by John Stark Bellamy, II and published by Gray & Company, Publishers. This book was released on 1995 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The foulest crimes and worst in Cleveland history are recounted in these 15 incredible-but-true tales. Each no-holds-barred account into one of this city's most notorious moments, from the 1916 waterworks collapse to the Cleveland Clinic fire to the sensational Sam Sheppard murder trial. These gripping narratives deliver high drama and dark comedy, heroes and villains, obsession, courage, treachery, deceit, fear, and guilt -- all from the streets of Cleveland.

Book The History of Cleveland

Download or read book The History of Cleveland written by John Graves and published by . This book was released on 1808 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Maniac in the Bushes and More Tales of Cleveland Woe

Download or read book The Maniac in the Bushes and More Tales of Cleveland Woe written by John Stark Bellamy and published by Ohio. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirteen more incredible true stories of Cleveland crime and disaster from the author of "They Died Crawling." Meet Martha Wise, the Merry Widow of Medina, who poisoned relatives because she enjoyed funerals; Cleveland Safety Director Eliot Ness and his nemesis, the "Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run"; and many other local heroes and villains.

Book Death Ride at Euclid Beach

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Stark Bellamy
  • Publisher : Cleveland of Yesteryear
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 9781886228856
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Death Ride at Euclid Beach written by John Stark Bellamy and published by Cleveland of Yesteryear. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 5th book in Bellamy's popular series delivers 26 more tales of Cleveland crimes and disasters. Includes one of Cleveland's most baffling murder mysteries: the brutal murder of 16-year-old Beverly Jarosz in her suburban bedroom. Bellamy's stories are meticulously researched and delivered in a literate and entertaining style.

Book Disasters and Tragic Events  2 volumes

Download or read book Disasters and Tragic Events 2 volumes written by Mitchell Newton-Matza and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-03-26 with total page 846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Salem Witch Trials of 1692 to the Sandy Hook school massacre of 2012, this two-volume encyclopedia surveys tragic events—natural and man-made, famous and forgotten—that helped shape American history. Tragedies and disasters have always been part of the fabric of American history. Some gave rise to reactions that profoundly influenced the nation. Others dominated public consciousness for a moment, then disappeared from collective memory. Organized chronologically, Disasters and Tragic Events examines these moments, covering both the familiar and the obscure and probing their immediate and long-term effects. Unlike other works that concentrate on a particular type of disaster, for example, weather- or medicine-related tragedies, this two-volume encyclopedia has no such limits. Its entries range from natural disasters, such as hurricanes and tornadoes, to civic disturbances, environmental disasters, epidemics and medical errors, transportation accidents, and more. The work is a perfect supplement for history classes and will also prove of great interest to the general reader.

Book Corpse in the Cellar

Download or read book Corpse in the Cellar written by John Stark Bellamy and published by Ohio. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the stories of twenty-five crimes and tragedies that occurred in the Cleveland, Ohio area in the late 1800s and early 1900s, including the assassination of William E. Potter in 1931, and the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey fire of 1942.

Book The people s history of Cleveland and its vicinage

Download or read book The people s history of Cleveland and its vicinage written by George Markham Tweddell and published by . This book was released on 2012-05-14 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 Excerpt: ...well as of general utility. London: John Russell Smith, 36 Soho Square; and Bemrnse and Sous, 21, Paternoster Row; Derby: Heinrose and Sons. All Communications, Books for Review, &c, &c, to be addressed to the Editor, MR. LLEWELLYNN JEWITT, P.S.A, WINSTER HALL, NEAR MATLOCK. THE YORKSHIRE TELEGRAPH A First-class Weekly Newspaper of Eight Pages, The Size of "Tub Times." PRICE ONE PENNY. For an Epitome of the General and District News, The YorkShire Telegraph is unequalled. THE YORKSHIRE TELRGRAIiH Circulates extensively in the following Towns and Villages, where it may be regularly obtained: --Ampleforth, Appleton-le-Moor, Ainderby, Ayton, Aiskew, Acomb, Bielby, Bubwitk, Brandsby, Birdforth, Bridlington, Bridlington Quay, Beverley, Boston Spa, Bedale, Bransdale, Bradford, Brompton, Bishop Auckland, Bradbury. Broughton, Barnard Castle, Boroughbrulge, Bilsdale, Barton Hill, Burrill, Burnestone, Bempton, Bramham, Carthorpe, Crakchall, Carlton Husthwaite, (Jlaxton, Concysthorpe, Cottingham, Castle Howard, Castleton, Catterick, Carlton, Cold Kirby, Coxhoe, Cave (N. & S.), Cowton (East), Croft, Coxwold, Doncaster, Driffield, Darlington, Durham, Dilling, Estou, Edstone, Easingwold, Escrick, Earswick, Exelby, Flaxton, Fridaythorpe, Full Sutton, Fulford, Fencote, Fadmoor, Filey, Fencenousos, Farndale End, Ferry Hill, Fimber, Fencote, Flambro', Goole, Gillamoor, Guisbrough, Gilling, Gate Helmsley, Hornsea, Husthwaite, Hutton, Huntington, Hull, Huby, Holme, Howden, Harrogate, Hnnmanby, Helmsley, Hovingham, Huttonle-Holc, Hawnby, Hartlepool, Hutton Rudby, Hurworth, Hutton Crauswick, Harswell, Helperby, Holtby, Ingleby, Kirby Fleetham, Keltield, Kexby, Kelk, Kilburn, Kirkham, Kirby-Moorside, Knaresbrough, Kilham, Leeming, Lastingham, Lowthorpe, Leeds...

Book Women Behaving Badly

Download or read book Women Behaving Badly written by John Stark Bellamy, II and published by Gray & Company, Publishers. This book was released on 2005 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women who murder . . . why are they so much more fascinating than their male counterparts? For evidence, dip into any of the sixteen strange-but-true tales collected in this anthology by Cleveland’s leading historical crime writer. You’ll meet: • Ill-fated Catherine Manz, the “Bad Cinderella” who poisoned her step-sister in revenge for years of mistreatment, then made her getaway wearing her victim’s most fetching outfit, a red dress and an enormous feathered hat . . . • Velma West, the big-city girl who scandalized rural Lake County in the 1920s with her “unnatural passions”—and ended her marriage-made-in-hell with a swift hammer’s blow to the skull of her dull husband, Eddie . . . • Eva Kaber, “Lakewood’s Lady Borgia,” who, along with her mother and daughter, conspired to dispose of an inconvenient husband with arsenic and knife-wielding hired killers . . . • Martha Wise, Medina’s not-so-merry widow, who poisoned a dozen relatives—including her husband, mother, and brother—because she enjoyed going to funerals . . . And a cast of other, equally fascinating women who behaved very, very badly. This is wickedly entertaining reading!

Book White Hurricane

Download or read book White Hurricane written by David Geren Brown and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Autumn gales have pursued mariners across the Great Lakes for centuries. On Friday, November 7, 1913, those gales captured their prey. After four days of winds up to 90 miles an hour, freezing temperatures, whiteout blizzard conditions, and mountainous seas, 19 ships had been lost, two dozen had been thrown ashore, 238 sailors were dead, and the city of Cleveland was confronting the worst natural disaster in its history. Writer and mariner David G. Brown combines narrative intensity with factual depth to re-create the events of the "perfect storm" that struck America's heartland."--Publisher's description

Book The Big Truck That Went By

Download or read book The Big Truck That Went By written by Jonathan M. Katz and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2013-01-08 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On January 12, 2010, the deadliest earthquake in the history of the Western Hemisphere struck the nation least prepared to handle it. Jonathan M. Katz, the only full-time American news correspondent in Haiti, was inside his house when it buckled along with hundreds of thousands of others. In this visceral, authoritative first-hand account, Katz chronicles the terror of that day, the devastation visited on ordinary Haitians, and how the world reacted to a nation in need. More than half of American adults gave money for Haiti, part of a monumental response totaling $16.3 billion in pledges. But three years later the relief effort has foundered. It's most basic promises—to build safer housing for the homeless, alleviate severe poverty, and strengthen Haiti to face future disasters—remain unfulfilled. The Big Truck That Went By presents a sharp critique of international aid that defies today's conventional wisdom; that the way wealthy countries give aid makes poor countries seem irredeemably hopeless, while trapping millions in cycles of privation and catastrophe. Katz follows the money to uncover startling truths about how good intentions go wrong, and what can be done to make aid "smarter." With coverage of Bill Clinton, who came to help lead the reconstruction; movie-star aid worker Sean Penn; Wyclef Jean; Haiti's leaders and people alike, Katz weaves a complex, darkly funny, and unexpected portrait of one of the world's most fascinating countries. The Big Truck That Went By is not only a definitive account of Haiti's earthquake, but of the world we live in today.

Book White Hurricane

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Geren Brown
  • Publisher : International Marine Publishing Company
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 296 pages

Download or read book White Hurricane written by David Geren Brown and published by International Marine Publishing Company. This book was released on 2002 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "White Hurricane, " writer and mariner David G. Brown combines narrative intensity with factual depth to re-create the events of the "perfect storm" that struck America's heartland in 1913.

Book To Act as a Unit

    Book Details:
  • Author : John D. Clough
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2005-04
  • ISBN : 9781596240001
  • Pages : 416 pages

Download or read book To Act as a Unit written by John D. Clough and published by . This book was released on 2005-04 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the history of the Cleveland Clinic from its start as a small not-for-profit group practice to being the world's second largest private academic medical center, this medical history tells one of the most dramatic stories in modern medicine. Starting on the battlefield hospitals of World War I, this details how the clinic achieved medical firsts, such as the discovery of coronary angiography and the world's first successful larynx transplant, improved hospital safety, and met the challenges of the 21st century to be ranked among the top five hospitals in America. This text not only recounts the history of the clinic but presents a model for other not-for-profit organizations on how to endure and thrive.