By every measure, Hurricane Sandy was a disaster of epic
proportions. The deadliest storm to strike the East Coast since
Hurricane Diane in 1955, Sandy killed thirty-seven people and
caused more than $30 billion in damages in 2012 to New Jersey
alone. But earlier centuries experienced their own catastrophes. In
"Disaster , " Alan A. Siegel brings readers face-to-face with
twenty-eight of the deadliest natural and human-caused calamities
to strike New Jersey between 1821 and 1906, ranging from horrific
transportation accidents to uncontrolled fires of a kind rarely
seen today. As Siegel writes in his introduction, "None of the
stories end well--there are dead and injured by the thousands as
well as millions in property lost." Accounts of these fires,
steamboat explosions, shipwrecks, train wrecks, and storms are told
in the words of the people who experienced the events firsthand,
lending a sense of immediacy to each story. Disasters bring out the
worst as well as the best in people. Siegel focuses on the bravest
individuals, including harbor pilot Thomas Freeborn who drowned
while attempting to save fifty passengers and crew of a ship
foundering on the Jersey Shore, and Warwicke Greene, a
fourteen-year-old schoolboy who rescued the injured "like the hero
of an epic poem" after a train wreck in the Hackensack Meadows.
These and many other stories of forgotten acts of courage in the
face of danger will make "Disaster " an unforgettable
read.FiresNewark -- October 27, 1836Cape May City -- September 5,
1856Cape May City -- August 31, 1869Cape May City -- November 9,
1878Newton -- September 22, 1873Caven Point, Jersey City Refinery
Fire -- May 10, 1883The Standard Oil Fire, Bayonne -- July 5, 1900
Steamboat Disasters"New Jersey," Camden -- March 15, 1856"Isaac
Newton," Fort Lee -- December 5, 1863
Train WrecksBurlington -- August 29, 1855Hackensack Meadows --
January 15, 1894May's Landing -- August 11, 1880Absecon Island --
July 30, 1896Bordentown -- February 21, 1901The Thoroughfare --
October 28, 1906
Shipwrecks"John Minturn," South of Mantoloking -- February 15,
1846"Powhattan," Beach Haven -- April 15, 1854"New Era," Deal Beach
-- November 13, 1854"New York," North of Barnegat Inlet -- December
20, 1856"Vizcay"a and "Cornelius Hargraves," Off Barnegat Bay --
October 30, 1890"Delaware," Barnegat Bay -- July 8, 1898
Natural DisastersBlizzard of '88 -- March 11-14, 1888The Great
September Gale -- September 3, 1821Statewide Hurricane -- September
10, 1889New Brunswick Tornado -- June 19, 1835Camden Tornado --
July 26, 1860Camden Tornado -- August 3, 1885Cherry Hill Tornado --
July 13, 1895
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