WELCOME
TO
THE
WORLD
OF
DISASTERS
Disasters can devastate any one of us at any given moment. Whether manmade
, or nature's fury, there are conditions surrounding us which will inevitably
sculpt our future.
A Small Humble Page With A Broken Heart
It was a Saturday afternoon, another day in the short but successful life
of ValuJet, a three-year-old discount airline; an afternoon in which more
than 100 people in Miami -- some on their way somewhere for Mother's Day
visits -- boarded ValuJet Flight 592 bound for
Atlanta.
THE HINDENBURG
The Hindenburg
Disaster
Tragedy
at Lakehurst, New Jersey
Hindenburg
CRASH
OF THE HINDENBURG
Description
of Hindenburg Crash
TWA Flight 800
CNN's completed coverage of the crash can be found
here.
Major
Airline disasters
The
Crash Web Site
Historical Timeline of Aircraft
Crashes
Lindsay, Canada—Remarkable
Collision—1887
Associated Press
Astronauts and cosmonauts killed in the history of space exploration:
-- Jan. 27, 1967: Astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward H. White and Roger B. Chaffee
die when a fire sweeps their command module during a ground test at Kennedy
Space Center.
-- April 24, 1967: Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov is killed when his Soyuz
I spacecraft crashes on return to Earth.
-- June 29, 1971: Cosmonauts Georgy Dobrovolsky, Vladislav Volkov and Viktor
Patsayev die during re-entry of their Soyuz 11 spacecraft. A government
commission disclosed that the three died 30 minutes before landing because
a faulty valve depressurized the spacecraft.
-- Jan. 28, 1986: The space shuttle Challenger explodes 73 seconds after
launch, killing all seven astronauts aboard, including Christa McAuliffe,
intended to be the first teacher in space. Other astronauts killed were Francis
"Dick" Scobee, Michael J. Smith, Ellison S. Onizuka, Judith A. Resnik, Ronald
E. McNair and Gregory B. Jarvis.
-- Feb. 1, 2003: Space shuttle Columbia breaks apart in flames about 203,000
feet over Texas, 16 minutes before it was supposed to touch down in Florida.
All seven aboard were killed: William McCool, Rick Husband, Michael Anderson,
Kalpana Chawla, David Brown, Laurel Clark and Ilan Ramon, who was Israel's
first astronaut.
The Great Chicago
Fire
The infamous fire, supposedly started by Mrs. O'Leary's cow, destroyed three
and a third square miles of Chicago, leaving 90,000 people homeless and killing
250 to 300. More info is available from the Chicago Historical Society in
The Great Chicago
Fire & The Web of Memory.
The
Great Chicago Fire of 1871
Origin
of the Chicago Fire
The
Great Chicago Fire Link
Inside
the Burning City of Chicago
Pittsburgh Fire
Much of downtown Pittsburgh was destroyed by fire in 1845. Read about the
fire
here.
Philadelphia Zoo Fire
When compared to other disasters listed here, this fire and its death toll
of 23 animals pales, but for animal lovers it seemed a disastrous failure
of our responsibility to care for those less able than ourselves. Read the
story
here.
A TIMELINE OF FLAMES
Andrea Doria: Tragedy
and Rescue at Sea
The sinking of the Titanic is certainly one of the best known disasters.
A narrative of the event based around the experiences of assistant wireless
operator, Harold Bride, is given in this selection from the
THE
TITANIC RESOURCE
Chelyabinsk
"In the late 1940's, about 80 kilometers north of the city of Chelyabinsk,
an atomic weapons complex called "Mayak" was built... For forty-five years,
the Chelyabinsk province of Russia was closed to all foreigners... For over
six years, the Mayak complex systematically dumped radioactive waste into
the Techa River, the only source of water for the 24 villages which lined
its banks... In 1957, the area suffered its next calamity when the cooling
system of a radioactive waste containment unit malfunctioned and exploded."
These excerpts are from an excellent web site on this disaster.
Check it out!
Oklahoma City
EARTHQUAKES
CURRENT EARTHQUAKE
INFORMATION
Perilous
Times Earthquake Page
San
Francisco – Earthquakes
Want to experience full motion video and sounds of the most terrifying
disasters on the face of the earth? Well, then get ready to feel the sound
of a tornado rip through an incident town, or a volcano rain ash as it were
snow. See floods that engulf whole towns and hurricanes that level everything
in their paths.
Tropical
cyclone and hurricane glossary
Volcanoes
Michigan
Technological University Volcanoes Page
I really like this site! Click on icons on an image map of the world, and
link to information about a current disaster in that area. Everything from
volcanoes to dangerously cold temperatures.
And Try>
Natural
Disasters Web Site
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Mason, Ky.—Terrible
Train Wreck—1883
Railway Wrecks and Wrecking - 1901
Ashtabula Disaster - 1876
The "Angola Horror" - 1867
The "Housatonic Slaughter" - 1865
Spuyten Duyvil - 1882—Frank Leslie's
Spuyten Duyvil - 1882—Harper's Weekly
Spuyten Duyvil - 1882—Mechanic's Journal
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Disaster - 1887
Toledo, Peoria and Western Railroad - Disaster
- 1887
New Orleans and Northeastern Railroad Wreck -
1912
The Great Shohola Train Wreck
Arizona and New Mexico RR
Wreck
Pelhamville, NY—NY, NH &
H Railroad—1886
Marshalltown, Iowa—Iowa Central
Railroad—1891
New Haven, Conn.—Shore Line
Railroad—1891
Accident on the New York Central—1858—Hand
Colored Woodcut
This is a good site for information and pictures on the Andrea
Doria
Back to
Titanic
This is a good site for information and pictures on the Titanic. Tons
of information.
Eastland Disaster
Historical Society
This is a good site about the Eastland, the steamer which sank in a river
in Chicago, Illinois.
Encyclopedia
Titanica
This is a good site for anything and everything having to do with the
Titanic building and sinking. Great!
The Great Ocean
Liners
This is a good site if your looking for info on any ship, whether it is
a shipwreck or not. It has tons of images and information on luxury liners
that have been built since the 1800s.
Great Shipwrecks:
Tragedies of Life and Legend
This is a good site about many different famous shipwrecks across the
world. Some good information and links.
LostLiners
This is a good site with some information and pictures on many shipwrecks,
all of them luxury liners.
The Mary Rose
This is a good site about the British galleon, the Mary Rose.
Michail
Michailakis' HMHS Britannic Site
This is a good site with information on the Britannic.
Monsters of the
Sea
This is a good site for information on all ocean liners, mainly from the
early 1900s.
PBS Online: Lost
Liners
This is a good site with information on 5 wrecks (Titanic, Lusitania,
Empress of Ireland, Britannic, & Andrea Doria). Based on the TV show
with Bob Ballard.
Web Titanic
This is a good Irish site on the Titanic. Tons of information.
The
Story of the Titanic
Titanic & Other
WS Ships (great link!)
Titanic Passenger
& Crew List
Titanic & Other
WS Ships TOC
TITANIC - The Exhibit
(Salvage Photographs)
Titanic Internet Historical
Association
Titanic
- Raising a Legend Online
GREAT SITE!! >
The
Natural Disaster Reference Database
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