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Disaster in Lawrence: The Fall of the Pemberton Mill - Softcover

Oickle, Alvin F.

 
9781596295063: Disaster in Lawrence: The Fall of the Pemberton Mill
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1596295066 ISBN 13: 9781596295063
Verlag: HISTORY PR, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

The destruction was unimaginable. Workers in nearby factories watched with horror as the Pemberton Mill buckled and then collapsed, trapping more than six hundred workers, many of them women and children. Word of the disaster spread quickly and volunteers rushed to the scene. As survivors called out for help, a lantern fell, and within minutes fire engulfed the building, burning those trapped inside. It took days for rescuers to complete the grim task of removing the charred bodies of the dead. Alvin F. Oickle's riveting account illustrates why, nearly a century and a half later, the Pemberton collapse is still considered one of the worst industrial calamities in American history.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Alvin Oickle is the author of two other recent "disaster books" from The History Press: Disaster in Lawrence: The Fall of the Pemberton Mill and Disaster at Dawn: The Cedar Keys Hurricane of 1896. His other nineteenth-century history books include Jonathan Walker: The Man with the Branded Hand. Al has been an Associated Press feature writer, a daily newspaper editor and a writing instructor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His long career in journalism has also extended into broadcasting.

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Verlag
HISTORY PR
Erscheinungsdatum
2008
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1596295066
ISBN 13 
9781596295063
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
125
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