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Burial plot of unidentified dead victims (61) of East Ohio Gas blast
Burial plot of unidentified dead victims (61) of East Ohio Gas blast
Identifiereastohio009
TitleBurial plot of unidentified dead victims (61) of East Ohio Gas blast
SubjectEast Ohio Gas Co. Explosion And Fire
Disasters
Disaster victims
Cemeteries
DescriptionThe East Ohio Gas Company explosion, one of worst disasters in Cleveland history, occurred on Friday, October 20, 1944 when a tank of natural gas exploded on Cleveland's east side destroying homes and businesses and killing 130 people.
CreatorThomas, James
Location DepictedCleveland (Ohio)
Time PeriodPost-Industrial: 1930-1959
Date Original1949
Object Typeblack-and-white photographs
Size of Original7x9 in.
CollectionCleveland Press
Collection Homepagehttp://www.clevelandmemory.org/press/
DonorCole, Joseph E.
Copyrighthttp://www.clevelandmemory.org/copyright/
Formatjpeg
RepositoryCleveland State University. Michael Schwartz Library. Special Collections.
Repository Homepagehttp://web.ulib.csuohio.edu/SpecColl/
Digital PublisherCleveland Memory Project
Encyclopedia of Cleveland History Entryhttp://ech.cwru.edu/ech-cgi/article.pl?id=EOGCEAF
Further Readinghttp://scholar.csuohio.edu/search/d?SEARCH=disasters+.ohio
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