Fifty Great Disasters and Tragedies that Shoked the World

Introduction

The Editor wishes to express his thanks to the editor of the Alpine Journal for permission to quote from Mr. Odell's account of the Everest Expedition of 1924 and also to base the accompanying diagram on one which appeared in the Alpine Journal. Thanks are also due to Messrs. John Murray for permission to quote from Captain Scott's Journals which are contained in Scott's Last Expedition.

Table of content

• The Death of Gordon
• The Tragedy of Parnell
• The Boxer Rising
• The Ramming of U.S. Submarine S4
• The Krakatoa Eruption
• The Farrow's Bank Crash
• The Belgian Royal Family Tragedy
• The Loss of the R101
• The Lindbergh Baby Case
• The Black Hole of Calcutta
• The Great Fire of Chicago
  Like her own prairies by some chance seed sown,
  Like her own prairies in one brief day grown,
  Like her own prairies in one fierce night mown.
  Bret Harte.
• The Mount Everest Expedition of 1924
• The Plague and Great Fire of London
• The Great Irish Famine
• The Murder of President Lincoln
• The Khyber Pass Massacre
• The Gretna Troop-Train Smash
• The St. Cloud Tornado Horror
• The Glencoe Massacre
• The Sinking of the Princes Alice
• The Shot that started the World War
• The Tragic Life and Death of Shelley
• The Tay Bridge Horror
• The Sinking of the Lusitania
• The Ramming of the Victoria
• The loss of the Bikkenhead
• The Great Halifax Explosion
• The Gresford Mine Disaster
• The Death of Lord Kitchener
• The Great Japanese Earthquake of 1923
• The Silvertown Explosion
• The Children's Crusade
• The Captain Scott Epic
• The Klondike Gold Rush
• The Retreat from Moscow
• The South Sea Bubble
• The Dreyfus Tragedy
• The Massacres of the Armenians
• The "Fireman's Wedding" Tragedy
• The Charge of the Light Brigade
• The Black Death
• The Suicide of Ivar Kreuger
• The "Black Hole" of Paris
• The Texas School Disaster
• The Terror of the Zeppelins
• The Paisley Cinema Disaster
• The Fate of the Morro Castle
• The American Flood Havoc of 1937
• The Death on Nelson
• The Sinking of the Titanic