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,or directly on the image,will bring up a larger version of the illustration.)GREAT DISASTERS
AND
Horrors in the World’s History.
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A GRAPHIC ACCOUNT OF THE NOTABLE CALAMITIES
WHICH HAVE BEFALLEN MANKIND
IN ALL AGES, BOTH UPON LAND AND SEA.
EMBRACING
THE LOUISVILLE TORNADO, FLOODS IN THE SOUTH, CHARLESTON EARTHQUAKE,
JOHNSTOWN FLOOD, STORM ON THE COAST OF SAMOA, NOTED SHIPWRECKS,
GREAT FLOODS IN CHINA, HOLLAND AND JAPAN, AND OTHER NOTABLE
DISASTERS CAUSED BY STORM, FLOOD AND VOLCANIC ACTION,
AND OF THE LAWS OF THE
NATURAL PHENOMENA THAT PRODUCE THEM.
COMPRISING
THRILLING TALES OF HEROISM, GREAT DESTRUCTION OF TOWNS, CITIES, HOMES
AND LIVES, HEART-RENDING SCENES OF AGONY, DREADFUL SUFFERINGS,
MIRACULOUS ESCAPES, DARING ADVENTURES, ETC., ETC.,
TOGETHER WITH
NOBLE RESPONSES OF AID.
TO WHICH IS ADDED
AN ACCOUNT OF METHODS OF PREDICTION.
By A. H. GODBEY, A.M.,
Author of “Stanley in Africa,” “Light in Darkness,” “Missions and Missionary Heroes,” etc.
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Copyright.
1890,
W. L. HOLLOWAY.
PREFACE.
Whatever be the ideas of the public upon a glance at the title page ofthis work, it is not intended to pander to the morbid desire for thesensational or horrible, characteristic of weak minds. This volume isnot a literary morgue.
Mankind is constantly astonished by reports of mishaps and disasters ofmanifold character, when there is seldom room for astonishment. A largeprop