Disaster in Lawrence: The Fall of the Pemberton Mill - Hardcover
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Language:EnglishPublisher:History Press Library EditionsISBN-13:9781540218926ISBN-10:1540218929UPC:9781540218926Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:United StatesBook Topic:State & LocalSize:10.00 x 7.00 x 0.38 inchesWeight:0.9899Product ID:SCF0JVZQV0
Disaster in Lawrence: The Fall of the Pemberton Mill
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...
Language:EnglishPublisher:History Press Library EditionsISBN-13:9781540218926ISBN-10:1540218929UPC:9781540218926Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:United StatesBook Topic:State & LocalSize:10.00 x 7.00 x 0.38 inchesWeight:0.9899Product ID:SCF0JVZQV0
Oickle, Alvin F.: - 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...
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