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A matter of inquiry | The Legal Genealogist
An article by Judy G. Russell about the explosion in the harbor of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, on 6 December 1917.
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GenDisasters.com - Events That Touched Our Ancestor's Lives
GenDisasters.com, chronicles the events that touched our ancestors' lives - train wrecks, fires, floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, storms, mining explosions, ship wrecks, drownings, and accidents. Transcribed newspaper accounts, excerpts from historical books and photographs detail hundreds of life's tragedies that our ancestors' endured, from the 1800s to the 1950s. New material is being transcribed and added daily. Searchable. [The original link is gone. This link points to an archived copy on the Wayback Machine]
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Jan. 15, 1919: Morass of Molasses Mucks Up Boston
Boston's 1919 molasses-tank explosion from Wired Magazine.
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mental_floss Blog >> Boston's Great Molasses Flood of 1919
On January 15, 1919, Boston suffered one of history
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Molasses Disaster of January 15, 1919
Molasses tank in Boston exploded with great force and flooded the streets with an eight-foot wave of molasses killing 21 people.
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The Baddesley / Baxterley Pit Explosion 1882
A history of the Baddesley / Baxterley pit explosion in 1882 in Warwickshire England. Details of the men involved and their families, including a list of those killed and those who won Albert Medals for bravery.
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On December 6, 1917, in the midst of the Great War, a French munitions ship caught fire in Halifax harbor. The subsequent explosion flattened much of Halifax, killed 2,000 people and injured 9,000 more.
