10 Worst Disasters of 20th Century

6. Fall of the Empire State Building

On Saturday morning 28 July 1945, a veteran Army pilot broadcasted with B-25 light bomber from Bedford, Massachusetts, to Newark, New Jersey, including the co-pilot and the young marines also inside. The fog made the visibility pretty weak. About an hour later, the people in midtown Manhattan street realized the roar of the shrieking aircraft sharper and watched in horror the bomber suddenly appear from the haze of smoke, darting between storied building and then crashed into the side jump the Empire State Building. Fragments of aircraft and buildings collapsed in unison.

5. The Gillingham Fire Demonstration

Each year firefighters Gillingham, in Kent, England, will build a ‘home’ with wood and fabric for fire-fighting demonstration at the popular annual event party Gillingham Park. Every year, too, some local men are chosen from many candidates. On 11 July 1929, 9 boys, aged 10 to 14 – and 6 firefighters dressed as if it were a wedding, were climbing to the third floor of the ‘home’ with ropes and ladders. The plan was to light a fire on the first floor, save ‘wedding’ with a rope and ladder and then blow up the empty house to demonstrate the use of fire hoses. Because of an error, the fire caught early; the audience thought that the bodies they saw were a joke and applauded festively; while the firefighters sprayed water outside knowing the real disaster which had killed 15 people in the house.

4. Pittsburg Gas Cylinder Explosion

Large gas cylinders-the largest in the world at that time, in the heart of industrial center of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, suffered a leak. On the morning of 14 November 1927, the repairmen went out to fix it with an open brass lamp. Around 10 o’clock they found the leak. The tank containing 5 million cubic feet of natural gas, climbed into the air like a balloon and burst. Metal pieces, weighing 100 lbs, were scattered into the vicinity, and the effect of the combination of air pressure and fire left devastation to the square mile. 28 people were killed and hundreds were injured.

3. Tetes flood Cane on The Great Boston

15 January 1919, workers and residents Boston’s North End, mostly Irish and Italians, were enjoying the afternoon sun on a warm day. Suddenly, with a brief warning, the large tank of cast iron, owned by a pure distillation of a large wave broke and dropped black raw sugar, two floors high, sinking the roads and flowing slowly towards the waterfront area. Not only pedestrians but also trains and horses were not able to move. The accident caused 21 men, women and children to drown. The horses were really just stuck on the sticky liquid sugar, the police had to shoot them. Boston smelt like sugar drops during the week.

2. Panic The Shiloh Baptist Church

2000 people, mostly blacks, gathered at the Shiloh Baptist Church Birmingham, Alabama, on September 19, 1902, after hearing a lecture from Booker T. Washington. New church walls. Steep stairs, clinging to the wall. After the lecture was over, there was a little dispute over an empty chair, the people quarrelling start fighting with one of the choir members, the crowd seemed to be a misinterpretation ‘fire’ so everyone ran out the door. The door was not wide of course and was not able to accommodate the thousands of huddled masses. The stampede caused the death of 115 people.

1. Snakes in St. Invasi. Pierre

Volcanic activity in the ‘bald mountain’ high above St. Pierre, Martinique, usually was not so important which many residents ignored. The smoke from the crater and several small earthquakes started during April 1902. In early May, however, ash began to fall continuously, and the stinking smell of sulfur filled the air around. Existing houses on the slopes could not be more habitable, and above all more than 100 snakes fer-de-lances (this ya-big snakes and venomous in-America) began to creep and invaded quarter of the population at St. Pierre. 6 foot long snake killed 50 people and countless other animals. However, eradication has just begun, On May 5 avalanche occred when boiling mud was spilled into the sea, followed by a tsunami that killed hundreds of people, 3 days later, May 8, Mt Pelee finally exploded, sending lethal white lava and rocks into town. Within 3 minutes St Pierre was completely destroyed. Out of the population of 30,000 only 2 survivors were found.