Great Disasters and Horrors in the World's History
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GREAT DISASTERS
PREFACE.
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
GREAT DISASTERS
CHAPTER I. MYTHS OF THE WINDS.
CHAPTER II. CONSTANT WINDS.
CHAPTER III. PERIODIC WINDS.
CHAPTER IV. TORNADOES AND CYCLONES.
CHAPTER V. THE LOUISVILLE TORNADO.
CHAPTER VI INCIDENTS OF THE TORNADO.
CHAPTER VII. OTHER TORNADOES.
CHAPTER VIII. TROPICAL CYCLONES.
CHAPTER IX. PERILS OF THE SEA.
CHAPTER X. LIFE-SAVING MEASURES.
CHAPTER XI. GREAT SAMOAN HURRICANE.
CHAPTER XII. ELECTRIC STORMS.
CHAPTER XIII. RAIN, HAIL AND SNOW.
CHAPTER XIV. FLOODS IN THE SOUTH.
CHAPTER XV. THE FLOOD OF 1890.
CHAPTER XVI. THE JOHNSTOWN FLOOD.
CHAPTER XVII. INCIDENTS AT JOHNSTOWN.
CHAPTER XVIII. RELIEF MEASURES.
CHAPTER XIX. FAMINE AND PESTILENCE.
CHAPTER XX. THE VOLCANO.
CHAPTER XXI. GREAT ERUPTIONS OF VESUVIUS.
CHAPTER XXII. OTHER GREAT ERUPTIONS.
CHAPTER XXIII. EARTHQUAKES.
CHAPTER XXIV. EUROPEAN EARTHQUAKES.
CHAPTER XXV. EARTHQUAKES IN THE UNITED STATES AND ENGLAND.
CHAPTER XXVI. EARTHQUAKES IN TROPICAL AMERICA.
CHAPTER XXVII. PREDICTION AND PREVENTION.
CHAPTER XXVIII. THE REIGN OF LAW.
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