The Ashtabula Disaster

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Stephen D. Peet

PREFACE.

CONTENTS.

THE ASHTABULA DISASTER.

CHAPTER I. ASHTABULA.

CHAPTER II. THE RIVER AND THE BRIDGE.

CHAPTER III. THE NIGHT AND THE STORM.

CHAPTER IV. THE WRECK.

CHAPTER V. THE STARTLING CRASH.

CHAPTER VI. THE ALARM IN TOWN.

CHAPTER VII. THE FIRE AND THE FIREMEN.

CHAPTER VIII. CARE OF THE SURVIVORS.

CHAPTER IX. THE ROBBERS.

CHAPTER X. MIDNIGHT AT THE WRECK.

CHAPTER XI. THE PUBLIC EXCITEMENT.

CHAPTER XII. SCENES AT THE MORGUE.

CHAPTER XIII. THE RAILROAD OFFICIALS.

CHAPTER XIV. THE ARRIVAL OF FRIENDS.

CHAPTER XV. THE WAVE OF SORROW.

CHAPTER XVI. THE SEARCH FOR RELICS.

CHAPTER XVII. THE PASSENGERS.

CHAPTER XVIII. THE EXPERIENCE OF SURVIVORS.

CHAPTER XIX. PERSONAL INCIDENTS.

CHAPTER XX. KINDNESS SHOWN.

CHAPTER XXI. THE MEMORIAL SERVICES.

CHAPTER XXII. THE SUICIDE.

CHAPTER XXIII. THE CHARACTER OF MR. COLLINS.

CHAPTER XXIV. THE LOVED AND LOST.

CHAPTER XXV. SKETCHES OF CHARACTER.

CHAPTER XXVI. P. P. BLISS.

CHAPTER XXVII. TESTIMONY OF WITNESSES.

CHAPTER XXVIII. LESSONS OF THE EVENT.

THE CORONER'S VERDICT.

Transcribers' Notes

Cover created by Transcriber, using an illustration from the original book, and placed in the Public Domain.

THE
Ashtabula Disaster.

BY
Rev. Stephen D. Peet,
OF ASHTABULA, OHIO.

ILLUSTRATED.

CHICAGO, ILL.:
J. S. Goodman—Louis Lloyd & Co.
London, Ont.: J. M. Chute & Co.
1877.

Copyright, A. D. 1877,
By J. S. Goodman and Louis Lloyd & Co.

Ottaway & Colbert,
Printers,
147 & 149 Fifth Ave., Chicago.

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Electrotypers,
162 & 164 Clark St., Chicago.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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