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the east ohio gas co. EXPLOSION AND FIRE took place on Friday, 20 Oct. 1944, when a tank containing liquid natural gas equivalent to 90 million cubic feet exploded, setting off the most disastrous fire in Cleveland's history.
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]
On the afternoon of October 20, 1944, disaster struck Cleveland. An explosion at the East Ohio Gas Company complex near East 55th and St. Clair Avenue killed over 160 people (at final count), severely injured hundreds more and demolished an entire neighborhood.
Oct. 20, 1944, was an unseasonably warm Friday in Cleveland. But at 2:40 p.m., it turned into hell on earth for the city’s East Side. An explosion rocked residents as far east as Shaker Heights.
Sunlight glints off windshields, bouncing back onto the shiny steel surface of the East Ohio Gas Co.'s new cylindrical liquid gas storage tank — a giant bastard of technological wonder, the...
The East Ohio Gas Company Fire marks one of Cleveland’s most devastating disasters, destroying 79 houses, two factories, and 217 automobiles and damaging 85 houses and 18 factories. Property destruction, while devastating, pales in comparison to the lives lost in the fire.
EXPLOSION AND FIRE took place on Friday, 20 Oct. 1944, when a tank containing liquid natural gas equivalent to 90 million cubic feet exploded, setting off the most disastrous fire in Cleveland's history.
Cleveland's deadliest explosion -- the East Ohio Gas fireball that leveled scores of homes and took 130 lives 70 years ago -- still lives in the memories of those who survived, Brent Larkin...
Today marks the 66th anniversary of a natural gas explosion that killed 131 people, decimating a chunk of Cleveland’s east side and leaving an indelible mark on the state of Ohio— just one in a long line of natural gas and fuel pipeline disasters that have plagued the Midwestern fuel transportation hub and the rest of the U.S.
She didn't need the photos taken by her father to remember that day, 70 years ago, when two East Ohio Gas Co. storage tanks in the Slovenian St. Clair-Norwood neighborhood exploded, killing...