Periodic Winds

Great Disasters and Horrors in the World's History

by Allen H. GODBEY (1864 - 1948)

"Mankind is constantly astonished by reports of mishaps and disasters of manifold character, when there is seldom room for astonishment. A large proportion of the calamities reported from day to day are directly due to the haste, greed, and heedlessness of man himself, and need no comment. But there is a large class of disasters, due solely to meteorological or geological conditions, which surpass all others in magnitude and appalling destruction. In such cases men insist on prating about “mysterious visitations,” as though these occurrences were subject to the dominion of no law. To an examination of such is this book devoted." From the preface.

Listen next episodes of Great Disasters and Horrors in the World's History:
Earthquakes , Earthquakes in The United States and England , Earthquakes in Tropical America , Electric Storms , European Earthquakes , Famine and Pestilence , Floods in the South , Great Eruptions of Vesuvius , Great Samoan Hurricane , Incidents at Johnstown , Incidents of the Tornado , Life-Saving Measures , Other Great Eruptions Part 1 , Other Great Eruptions Part 2 , Other Tornadoes , Perils of the Sea , Prediction and Prevention , Rain, Hail and Snow , Relief Measures , The Flood of 1890 , The Johnstown Flood , The Louisville Tornado , The Reign of Law , The Volcano , Tornadoes and Cyclones , Tropical Cyclones