People’s Guide to the Cthulhu Mythos: Cosmic Horror, Lovecraft, Weird Fiction

Chapters XX & XXI: The VOLCANO & GREAT ERUPTIONS OF VESUVIUS

People’s Guide to the Cthulhu MythosS14BE10
Great Disasters and Horrors in the World's
History, by A. H. Godbey
CHAPTER XX.
THE VOLCANO.
Erroneous views—Myths—Active principle in volcanoes—Atmospheric pressure—Rain at eruptions—Lava, pumice, ashes and tufa—Different phases of action—Stromboli, the “lighthouse"—Lava bubbles—Thrilling adventure—Lost!—Theory of a molten earth—Objections to it—The earth cools slowly—Subsidence and chemical action—Distribution of volcanoes—Their work and forms
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CHAPTER XXI.
GREAT ERUPTIONS OF VESUVIUS.
Pompeii long buried—Excavations begun—A hermetically sealed city—Scenes in the town—Pliny’s story—Hundreds stifled—Finding the bodies—Subsequent eruptions—Notable convulsion of 1538—The eruption of 1531, 1737 and 1793—Recent observations
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Chapters 18 & 19: RELIEF MEASURES/FAMINE & PESTILENCE

People’s Guide to the Cthulhu MythosS14BE9RELIEF MEASURESFAMINE AND PESTILENCE
CHAPTER XVIII.
RELIEF MEASURES.
The people in want—Johnstown after the flood—Human ghouls—Relic hunters—Temporary government—A dictatorship—Hospitals and morgues—Prompt response of the public—Aid from various cities—Losses by the flood
CHAPTER XIX.
FAMINE AND PESTILENCE.
Signs and omens—Natural causes—Bengal famine of 1866—Relief Measures—Results—Pestilence and contagion—Black death—Its frequent ravages—Fright—A romance of Florence
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ChaptersXV & XVI: THE FLOOD OF 1890 & THE JOHNSTOWN FLOOD

Great Disasters and Horrors in the World's History Chapters XV & XVI:
CHAPTER XV.
THE FLOOD OF 1890.
Floods of other years—Warning of the Signal Service—The water rising—At Greenville, Mississippi—The fight for the Morganza line—The waters win—Other crevasses—Extent of the damage—Objections to levees—Levees versus outlets—Terrible floods in China—A proposed outlet—Reflection on present policy{x}
 
CHAPTER XVI.
THE JOHNSTOWN FLOOD.
The dam system of India—American “cheap goods and haste"—The Little Conemaugh Valley—Heavy rains—Johnstown flooded—The artificial lake—A poor dam—No uneasiness—How the water would move—The dam breaks—Terrible rush of the flood—An engine chased—A warning whistle—Locomotives hurled about like toys—Flying for life—Escapes and losses
 
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Chapters XIII & XIV: RAIN, HAIL AND SNOW & FLOODS IN THE SOUTH

Great Disasters and Horrors in the World's History Chapters XIII & XIV
CHAPTER XIII.
RAIN, HAIL AND SNOW.
Clouds and cloud shapes—The storm changes national destinies—Cloud halos—Specter of the Brocken—The “beautiful rain"—Amount of rainfall—Snow—Its ravages—Remarkable showers of hail—Prodigies
 
CHAPTER XIV.
FLOODS IN THE SOUTH.
Rivers a universal problem—Character of the Mississippi—Failure of the levee system—The building of levees—Three great sections—Damage of overflows—Fighting for the levee—Storm on the river—Scene at a crevasse—The flood in the rural districts—In the city—Closing a crevasse—Refugees on the levee—Crooked streams
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GREAT DISASTERS & Horrors in the World’s History: GREAT SAMOAN HURRICANE(for real this time, audio fixed)

CHAPTER XI.
GREAT SAMOAN HURRICANE.
Germany and Samoa—Naboth’s vineyard—War breaks out—The assembled navy—Situation of the harbor—The hurricane—Fears of the natives—Vessels dragging anchors—Sudden wreck of the Eber—Magnanimous natives—The Adler overturned—Struggle of the Nipsic—Fouled by the Olga, and run ashore—Crew rescued by the natives—The Vandalia helpless—Bold feat of the Calliope cheered—Vandalia stranded—Many Drowned—At the last gasp—The Trenton drifts upon them—Defiance of the storm—The flag triumphant
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GREAT DISASTERS & Horrors in the World’s History: XII ELECTRIC STORMS

CHAPTER XII.
ELECTRIC STORMS.
Byron’s fire—Myths of the lightning—Causes of thunder storms—Strange freaks of the lightning—Numerous fatalities—Some curious cases—A lightning stroke a Divine favor—Thunder—Peculiar incidents—Lightning little to be feared—Foolish precautions—A “dysentery conductor” wanted—St. Elmo’s fire—Electric halos—Their part in history—The aurora—Popular myths—Aurora describedGreat Disasters and Horrors by Allen H. Godbey (1864 - 1948), part 9Sticker & Shirts!!!Follow us:PodbeanAmazonAppleStitcherFacebookOur Patreon

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Great Disasters and Horror part IX: PERILS OF THE SEA(audio fixed)

CHAPTER IX.
PERILS OF THE SEA.
Songs of the sea—The ocean always admired—Its treasures and dangers—Man’s greed a source of disaster—Criminal disregard of life—Terrible fatalities in leaky ships—The Arctic seas—The ship Rufus
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ALALA & ALAOZAR/Dominique Lamssies/The Year of the Sex Olympics/VIII TROPICAL CYCLONES

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CHAPTER VIII.
TROPICAL CYCLONES.
Cyclones on our eastern borders—The Nova Scotia cyclone—St. Thomas cyclone and earthquake, 1837—Cyclone of 1867—Barbadoes storm, 1831—Great storm of 1780—Terrible cyclones and storm waves of India—Typhoons in the China seas

Great Disasters and Horrors part VII: OTHER TORNADOES

CHAPTER VII.
OTHER TORNADOES.
The tornado in East Kansas—In Southeast Missouri—Great damage in Illinois—Water-spout at Metropolis—Many distinct whirlwinds—Effect of forest and prairie fires—Tornado of Charleston, 1761—Tornadoes at Natchez, 1840 and 1842—The Marshfield storm, 1880—Remarkably small loss of life in tornadoes—Tornadoes in foreign lands
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