Texas Blast (brief title)
Men run towards smoke & fire. Aerial over burning refinery after nitrate filled ship exploded. Monsanto plant caught fire. Large portion of second nitrate ship blown inland. Bodies loaded onto stretchers. Many bodies seen. Large barge blown onto land. Bodies loaded onto trucks. Railroad tank cars labeled Texas City, Texas. Cars & people outside city building.
14:26:27 Texas Governor Beauford Jester; Gen. Wainwright directing rescue operations. Wounded treated by Red Cross nurses. Salvation Army providing food & supplies.
14:26:53 Houses blown off foundations & many destroyed. High school w/ blown out windows used as a morgue. Businesses destroyed. Large metal steel chunks from ships blown inland killing people & animals. Tanks burning w/ heavy black smoke. Wrecked cars piled; waterfront destroyed. Bulldozer pushing wreckage.
Disaster; Explosion Aftermath; Fire Fighting; Emergency Workers; Destruction; Dead; Death; Industrial Hazards; Petro-Chemical Industry; Ammonium Nitrate Fertilizer; Petroleum; Oil; 1947;
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Texas Blast (brief title) Men run towards smoke & fire. Aerial over burning refinery after nitrate filled ship exploded. Monsanto plant caught fire. Large portion of second nitrate ship blown inland. Bodies loaded onto stretchers. Many bodies seen. Large barge blown onto land. Bodies loaded onto trucks. Railroad tank cars labeled Texas City, Texas. Cars & people outside city building. 14:26:27 Texas Governor Beauford Jester; Gen. Wainwright directing rescue operations. Wounded treated by Red Cross nurses. Salvation Army providing food & supplies. 14:26:53 Houses blown off foundations & many destroyed. High school w/ blown out windows used as a morgue. Businesses destroyed. Large metal steel chunks from ships blown inland killing people & animals. Tanks burning w/ heavy black smoke. Wrecked cars piled; waterfront destroyed. Bulldozer pushing wreckage. Disaster; Explosion Aftermath; Fire Fighting; Emergency Workers; Destruction; Dead; Death; Industrial Hazards; Petro-Chemical Industry; Ammonium Nitrate Fertilizer; Petroleum; Oil; 1947;