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Ã2004., Beacon Press Call No: HI-INT 363.1 PUL Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Around noon on January 15, 1919, a group of firefighters was playing cards in Boston's North End when they heard a tremendous crash. It was like roaring surf, one of them said later. Like a runaway two-horse team smashing through a fence, said another. A third firefighter jumped up from his chair to look out a window. "Oh my God!" he shouted to the other men, "Run!" A 50-foot-tall steel tank filled with 2.3 million gallons of molasses had just collapsed on Boston's waterfront, disgorging its contents as a 15-foot-high wave of molasses that at its outset traveled at 35 miles an hour. It demolished wooden homes, even the brick fire stateion. The number of dead wasn't known for days. It would be years before a landmark court battle determined who was responsible for the disaster. - Back cover.
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[2021]., Pre-adolescent, Scholastic Inc. Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "It's 1900, and Charlie feels lucky to live in Galveston, Texas. Sure, there are storms sometimes. But nobody worries about hurricanes. Even a famous weather expert says it's impossible for a strong hurricane to strike Galveston. Which is why few people worry on the morning of September 8, when a big storm starts to brew. but Charlie watches with growing horror as monster waves rise up from the sea, as the wind starts to scream. by night, much of the city is under twenty feet of water. Will Charlie find a way to survive the storm of the century?"--Back cover.
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2002., Chelsea House Publishers Call No: 363.34 BRE Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Great disasters, reforms and ramificationsSummary Note: An account of the tragic Galveston, Texas hurricane of 1900 that claimed over six thousand lives.
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2012., Charlesbridge Call No: HI-INT 363.1 KOP Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: An account of the January 1919 molasses tank explosion in Boston, Massachusetts, seeks to uncover why the tank blew up and who was to blame through primary sources and archival photographs that show the extent of the damage.
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[2021]., Juvenile, Scholastic Inc. Call No: F Tar Genre: Historical fiction, Historical fiction, Historical fiction Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "It's 1900, and Charlie feels lucky to live in Galveston, Texas. Sure, there are storms sometimes. But nobody worries about hurricanes. Even a famous weather expert says it's impossible for a strong hurricane to strike Galveston. Which is why few people worry on the morning of September 8, when a big storm starts to brew. but Charlie watches with growing horror as monster waves rise up from the sea, as the wind starts to scream. by night, much of the city is under twenty feet of water. Will Charlie find a way to survive the storm of the century?"--Back cover.
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2000., Vintage Books Call No: 976.4 LAR Edition: 1st Vintage Books e Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Tells the story of Isaac Cline, a weather scientist in Galveston, Texas in 1900, discussing his belief and assertion that nothing in the way of weather could destroy the coastal city; and looks at how Cline dealt with the aftermath of the hurricane that hit Galveston on September 8, claiming the lives of thousands of people.
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c2005., HarperCollins Call No: E KIN Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: During the Vermont flood of 1927, a girl and her grandparents share their new hilltop house with neighbors and animals.