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Cleveland Area Disasters

By Thomas , Rydbom , Calvin;Kubat

Book information

Publisher
Arcadia Publishing
Year
2013
ISBN
9781467110259, 9781439643709, 1467110256
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
58 MB (60514278 bytes)
Series
Images of America
Pages
127 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
20th Century;Illustrated works;History;Pictorial wDisasters;Disasters--history;Disasters--Ohio--Clev

Description

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.

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