In 1947 the port town of Texas City, Texas became the site of the largest industrial disaster in American history. An enormous explosion blew ships out of the water, created a tidal wave that flooded the town, and killed hundreds of people instantly. Find out all about it in this classic episode.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
What happened during the Texas City disaster?
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All right, so this stuff, the cargo arrived by train to Texas City, and it was probably already heating up a little bit on this train and maybe already getting to the point where it was a little, I don't know about unstable, but volatile at least. And it gets transferred to the ship. It continues to sort of heat up. And the crew and everything, like you said, there wasn't a lot of awareness about
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