Fact or Fiction: House Disasters – Public Library of Topeka & Shawnee County

In fact, or fiction, I recommend a fiction and non -filming book on the same topic. This month you can choose a tense historical novel for a young French anarchist, an intention to blow up a train that horrifying a true story about an American train wreck that has changed the industry or both! Either way you will be fascinated by these historical books about train disasters.

Paris Express Emma Donogyu

Seven hours and 10 minutes. Only seven hours and 10 minutes to decide when and where to blow his home bomb on the Paris Express. As the train passes through the green fields and the small villages of Normandy, the young anarchist Madeleine “Mado” Peleter is considering his time. Now? Before getting to know the innocent passengers packed in the swinging third class. Or later? The more important passengers could get up later, making it a deadly action much more.

As Mado tightly squeezes his bomb, hidden in his lunch bucket and assigns, we meet other passengers and crew members in the Paris Express. Black American artist shyly befriends a lady scientist. The secretary is trying to convince his boss that moving photos are the path of the future. The driver and his packer worry the train will be late to Paris, threatening their Christmas bonus. And an old Russian emigra is very curious that a young woman with hair from close -ups and Surly Mayne keeps her bucket so carefully.

Great tense. Emma Donogyu draws a bright picture of Fin de Siècle France – smells, sights and thoughts – in her novel Paris ExpressS

Angola’s horror from the charity Vogel

Impetus. Then he trembled. Then, more sorely, it was swinging. Frightened passengers aboard New York Express, traveling high on the farm bridge over the big sister Crick, squeezed their belongings and looked at terror. What a terrible thing was happening?

What happened further on this winter afternoon in December 1867 will be known far and wide as “Angola’s Horror”. The two rear cars filled with passengers fell from the bridge. One descended 50 feet along a gorge, burst into flames and kicked out everyone but a few lucky rescue efforts from nearby peasants in Angola and Buffalo, almost 100 people were killed or injured in the tragic train.

Particularly the terrible way of deaths (charred carcasses, voiceless and voiceless torsion) in Angola caught the interest of the public and the fury throughout the country. At a time when rail trips become more and more affordable for more types of people than ever, Angola’s horror has caused outrage and searching for a more favorable railway trip. The Charity Vogel captures the tragedy, the developing rail industry and the nature of the railway travel in its fascinating book Angola’s horrorS

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