CONTENTS

PREFACE BY T. JOSEPH SCANLON

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

INTRODUCTION BY ROGER SARTY

CHAPTER I Samuel Henry Prince

CHAPTER II The Collision

CHAPTER III Response to the Collision

CHAPTER IV The Explosion

CHAPTER V Helping the Victims

CHAPTER VI The Panic That Wasn’t

CHAPTER VII Treating the Injured

CHAPTER VIII Organizing the Response

CHAPTER IX The Magnificent Railways

CHAPTER X The Deluge

CHAPTER XI The American Invasion

CHAPTER XII Emergency Hospitals

CHAPTER XIII Social Assistance

CHAPTER XIV The American Legend

CHAPTER XV Dealing with the Dead

CHAPTER XVI Media Distortions

CHAPTER XVII Blaming the French

CHAPTER XVIII Why It Happened

CHAPTER XIX Return to Normalcy

CHAPTER XX Lessons from the Explosion

APPENDIX A Detailed Notes about Sources

APPENDIX B The Railway Telegraph

APPENDIX C Death Toll

NOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX