One of the many illustrations featured in Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel (1883).
Featured on PDR in the essay Master of Disaster, Ignatius Donnelly
The destruction of Atlantis, cataclysmic comets, and a Manhattan tower made entirely from concrete and corpse — Carl Abbott on the life and work of a Minnesotan writer, and failed politician, with a mind primed for catastrophe.