E. Lynne Wright - Florida Disasters: True Stories of Tragedy and Survival

Vero Beach resident E. LYNNE WRIGHT is the author of It Happened in Florida and More than Petticoats: Remarkable Florida Women. Her short stories, nonfiction articles, essays, and book reviews have appeared in the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Hartford Courant, Womans Day, and many anthologies and literary magazines.

This book began with Mike Urban finding me and liking my previous books enough to suggest this one. I thank him for that.

Thanks to the Florida State Archives for their gold mine of excellent photographs and the assistance of their efficient staff, especially archivist Adam Watson.

I am most grateful to the librarians at the Indian River County Main Library. They are so good at their jobs, they make mine easier. Special thanks to Pam Cooper and Cyndi Davis in the Florida History and Genealogy Department.

I also thank the staff at the Cocoa Beach Public Library for their assistance in locating much information on the Harbor Cay story.

Special thanks to Tom McPherson and Peggy Kunkle at the National Museum of Naval Aviation for their expert help with the story of Flight 19.

The Jacksonville Historical Society was particularly helpful in supplying leads to track down some of the more difficult resources, and I thank them.

Ellen Henry at the Ponce de Leon Lighthouse Museum supplied me with leads on the Commodore chapter, and I thank her.

Thanks to Lee Fox at Save Our Seabrids for generously allowing me to use her own photos and for the outstanding work she does every day.

Thanks, too, to Catherine Lux at the American Institute of Architectural Students for her tireless efforts at tracking down those obscure files.

I am grateful to Dave Swan, Director of the Jacksonville Maritime Museum, for his fabulous detective work on the Gulfamerica story.

Most of all, Im grateful to my editor, Lynn Zelem, for her kindness, intelligence, encouragement, knowledge, and talent.

THEY NEVER S URRENDEREDNo Peace Treaty with the Seminoles

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DISASTER ON THE TREASURE COASTThe Wrecks of the Plate Fleet (1715)

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DISEASE SPREADS LIKE FIREThe Yellow Fever Epidemic (1888)

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A GROWERS NIGHTMAREThe Great Citrus Freeze (1895)

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CRANES OPEN BOATThe Wreck of the Filibustering Commodore (1897)

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A CITY IN FLAMESThe Jacksonville Fire (1901)

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LYNCH LAW WILL PREVAILThe Destruction of Rosewood (1923)

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A FLOATING HOTEL SINKSThe Capsize of the Prinz Valdemar (1926)

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THERE WERE BODIES EVERYWHEREThe Okeechobee Dike Collapse (1928)

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A BLACK WALL OF WATERVeterans Rescue Train Wiped Out (1935)

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Standiford, Les. Last Train to Paradise. New York: Crown Publishers, 2002.

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A SURPRISE ATTACKGulf americasMaiden Voyage (1942)

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