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Historic signage in Grdina Park, just south of the site of the LNG tank farm. The Cleveland East Ohio Gas explosion occurred on the afternoon of Friday, October 20, 1944. The resulting gas leak, explosion and fires killed 131 people and destroyed a one-square-mile area on the east side of Cleveland, Ohio. [1]
The Ironton Tanks were a semi-professional football team organized in 1919 in Ironton, Ohio. Their historical marker gives the story of the Tanks origin: "Semi-professional football began in Ironton in 1893 with a team known as the Irontonians. The Ironton Tanks, founded in 1919, was a combination of two Ironton cross-town rival football clubs ...
The Statue of Liberty's torch was closed to the public after the explosion, due to structural damage. [47] [48] Access was not opened even after the 1984–1986 restoration which included repairs to the arm and installation of a new gold-plated copper torch. [49] Kurt Jahnke escaped capture. He later served as an Abwehr agent during World War II.
A chemical gas leak from a rail tanker in Whitewater Township, Ohio, prompted fears of an explosion and evacuation orders for people within at least a half-mile radius of the incident.
Five brothers from Minnesota have been seriously injured in a propane tank explosion. The siblings aged 6-14 years old suffered severe burns in an explosion at a storage unit north of Bagley, Minn ...
There were no reports of fatalities but multiple people were transported from the scene to hospitals. The first floor of a building in downtown Youngstown, Ohio is destroyed by an explosion on 28 ...
Ironton is a city in and the county seat of Lawrence County, Ohio, United States. [4] The population was 10,571 at the 2020 census . Located in southernmost Ohio along the Ohio River , it is 20 miles (32 km) northwest of Huntington, West Virginia , within the Huntington–Ashland metropolitan area .
After two days of fear that the 30,000-gallon tank car could explode, hazmat teams were able to contain the leak. A railcar had been left sitting over the summer for more than five months, leading ...