Posted on Apr 16, 2024
Fertilizer explosion kills more than 500 in Texas | April 16, 1947 | HISTORY
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Article Quote: "The blast was heard 150 miles away and was so powerful that the ship’s 1.5- ton anchor was found two miles away."
Respect explosive materials.
Respect explosive materials.
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My parents bought some books from Readers Digest for young people. . When I would get sick and have to stay home from school, feeling bad but bored I used to read stories out those books. One story was about the explosion in Texas City entitled “The Day Death Passed me By”. The story was by a sailor working on a ship anchored in the Harbor when the explosion occurred.
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Lt Col Charlie Brown Terrible day in history. And this stupid county I live in let a company build one of these plants here. My son and I have been saying since they built it, "It's not if it blows up, it's when." Thankfully we live about twenty miles from this plant.
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