On April 16, 1947, the worst industrial disaster in American history happened about 200 miles from Austin. It's still remembered in Texas City as a day of tragedy.
Seventy-seven years ago this week, the worst industrial disaster in American history happened about 200 miles from Austin when a ship exploded.
In mid-April 1947, a French freighter, the Grand Camp, docked at Texas City to take on a heavy load of ammonium nitrate fertilizer. But as longshoremen loaded the ship on April 16, the smell of smoke filled the air. Then the unimaginable happened: an explosion so powerful that it was heard 210 miles away in Louisiana. Flaming debris ignited oil storage tanks and a chemical plant nearby. Hundreds died that day, most of them bystanders who had come to watch the fire burn.
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