Photo from Open Source Invasion of Serpents in San Pierre Volcanic activity of Mount Pelee (“bald mountain”), towering over the city Saint-Pierre, the island of Martinique, was usually like that insignificant that no one paid attention to fresh soaring vents and earth tremble in April 1902. Meanwhile, at the beginning May, a continuous ashy rain began, and appeared in the air sickening smell of sulfur. As a result of more than a hundred pit vipers crawled out of their shelters on the side of the mountain as they became unsuitable for living, and flooded one of the quarters of San Pierre, populated by mulattos. Poisonous 6-foot snakes killed 50 people and countless animals before they were finally destroyed by huge street cats. But it was only just beginning. Fifth of May, a huge landslide consisting of seething mud, flopped into the sea, causing a tsunami that killed several hundred people. And finally, three days later – on May 8, there was an eruption of a volcano, in the result of which is a killer amount of red-hot lava headed straight to the city. Within three minutes the city was completely wiped off the face of the earth. Of the total population of 30,000 only two survived. Panic at Shiloh Baptist Church Two thousand people – mostly blacks – crammed into the church Shiloh Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, September 19 1902, to listen to an appeal by Booker T. Washington. Brick The church building was recently built. Front door connected to elevation for chants by a flight of steps enclosed in brick. After Washington’s speech, a bickering over busy places, and the word “fight” (fight) was taken for the word “fire” (fire). As if on command, all the congregation jumped up from their seats and rushed to the stairs. Those who got to her first began to be pushed from behind, and they began to fall. Others fell right on them, while from screaming bodies did not form a heap 10 feet high, completely blocked the passage. Attempts by Washington and Church Ministers to call people to calm did not bear fruit, and they could only helplessly watch their siblings, and mostly sisters, either suffocated, or were trampled to death. Actually, it is not there was no fire, not even a fight, but 115 people died. Large molasses flooding in Boston on January 15, 1919, workers and residents of the northern Boston area are mostly Irish and Italians went outside enjoying the midday sun unusually warm day. Suddenly, warning about himself only short low rumble, huge cast iron tank Purity Distilling burst and a big wave of black crude molasses, two floors high, collapsed on Commercial Street and spilled over the surrounding port areas. Neither passers nor horse the teams could not overtake her. Two million gallons of molasses, intended for the production of rum, absorbed by many people – 21 people, including men, women and children, died from choking, another 150 were injured. Flood destroyed several buildings and brought down the flyover of the elevated railway. Horses not swallowed molasses, so stuck in the sticky mass that the police I had to shoot them. Onlookers who came to look at all this chaos, had to walk in molasses. On the way home they stole sticky substance throughout the city. Another week in Boston, there was a smell molasses, and the port remained brown until the summer. Gas explosion reservoir in pittsburgh in a huge cylindrical gas reservoir – at that time the largest in the world, located in the Downtown Pittsburgh, PA a leak has formed. On the morning of November 14, 1927, several repairmen They started looking for her using an open flame blowtorch. Apparently, they found it for about 10 hours – a reservoir containing 5 million. cubic feet of natural gas soared into the air like air ball, and exploded. Pieces of metal, some weighing more than 100 pounds, scattered over a huge distance. A joint impact air pressure and fire destroyed everything within the square miles. Twenty-eight people died and several hundred were injured. Demonstrations of firefighters in Gillingham Every year, firefighters in Gillingham, Kent, England, build an improvised “house” from wood and canvas hold demonstrations at a celebration held in Gillingham park. Also, every year, out of many applicants choose a few local boys to participate in this submission. On July 11, 1929, nine boys in ages 10 to 14, and 6 firefighters dressed as holiday outfits, as if they were going to a wedding, climbed onto the third floor of the “house”. According to the plan, firefighters had to light a smoke bomb on ground floor, save the “celebrants” with ropes and stairs, and then set fire to an empty house, showing fire hoses in action. However, by mistake, the first fire was lit. Viewers, believing that the burning bodies that they see are dolls, exclaimed joyfully and applauded while firefighters outside directed water jets on what they knew was a real disaster. All 15 people in the house died. Clash with Empire State Building Saturday morning, July 18, 1945, a veteran pilot ascended into the sky on a light a B-25 bomber in Bedford, Massachusetts, and headed for New York, New Jersey. There was also a second on board a pilot and a young sailor who had to be flown to New York. Standing fog greatly reduced visibility. An hour later, people on the streets in downtown Manhattan they suddenly heard a rapidly growing rumble of an airplane, and then they were horrified to see how suddenly out of the clouds bomber circled skyscrapers and crashed into a wall Empire State Building. The wreckage of the plane and the building collapsed in a hail. A gaping hole formed on the 78th floor. One of the engines of an airplane, breaking seven walls, flew out on the other side of the building, and the other – a bullet flying through the elevator shaft, and cutting the cable, brought down the cab elevator directly to the basement. When the fuel tank of an airplane explodes, the flame covered 6 floors, and burning gasoline flowed down the walls of the building. TO fortunately, only a few offices were open on Sunday, and killing only 11 people plus three passengers of this plane. Accident on the Tunguska River on June 30, 1908 a big explosion occurred near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in the area, where the Krasnoyarsk Territory of Russia is currently located. Probably, the explosion was caused by a fall of a meteorite or comet fragment, reaching about 20 m across. Despite the fact that it is believed that a meteorite (or comet) exploded before it hit the surface, about it events are said to be a hit. Estimated explosive power ranged from 10 to 20 megatons of TNT, this is 1000 times the explosion of a bomb dropped on Hiroshima and similarly the bombing of Castle Bravo, the most powerful U.S. bomb ever exploded. The explosion tumbled about 80 million trees in more than 2150 square meters. km Satellite photographs still show signs of destruction. Texas Explosion Chain Fifteenth of April 1947 French cargo ship Grandcamp moored in the port of g. Texas, and it loaded 1,400 tons of ammonia-based fertilizer saltpeter. At night, a fire broke out in the hold of the ship. By dawn, noticing black thick smoke, the port authorities were worried, because of everything Monsanto Chemical Plant was 700 feet from the port. Bye people stood in the dock and looked, tugs prepared to drag the ship into the open sea, when suddenly a ball of fire swept over him. For many, this it was the last thing they saw in their life. Huge wall of fire spread apart from the flaming debris, and after a few minutes a chemical plant exploded, killing and mutilating hundreds of workers and observers who survived the initial explosion. Most of the business district was destroyed, fires raged all over the coast lines endangering nearby tanks with butane. Just after midnight, another ship exploded, too transporting saltpeter, and the chain was repeated. More than 500 people died and about 1000 were seriously injured. Mass poisoning in Basra In September 1971 in an Iraqi port city Basra received a batch of seeds weighing 90,000 tons. Processed American Barley and Mexican Wheat methylmercury in order to prevent spoilage, were painted in bright pink color, indicating their deadly coating. Also clear warnings were printed on the bags, but only on English and spanish. Before they could get to to farmers, bags were stolen from the docks and seeds were sold starving people disguised as food. Iraqi government embarrassed by his criminal negligence, or by any other reasons hushed up the story. But less than two years, as one American journalist put forward evidence that 6530 cases of mercury poisoning have been linked to this impartial history. Officials recognized only 459 deaths, but their total number probably reaches more than 6,000, including more 100,000 people suffering from the irreversible effects of poisoning, such as blindness, deafness, and brain damage. Distraught elephants in the forest of Chandka In the spring of 1972, the forest of Chandka in India, already suffering from drought, was hit by new hot the waves. Local elephants who usually did not create any difficulties so distraught from heat and shortage water that the villagers turned to the authorities and said that Do not risk going out and cultivating their land. With the onset of summer the situation has worsened. July 10th herds of angry elephants swept through 5 villages, leaving behind the ubiquitous destruction and 24 dead people.
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