Pool 5 Explosion (1945)
Description
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Photographs
- Description
- A worker searches through the twisted wreckage of metal, concrete and wire left after the explosion of grain elevator Pool #5 on August 7, 1945 in Current River. The explosion was caused by grain dust combustion. The top four floors of the elevator were destroyed. Eighteen men were killed, or died later, and thirty-seven men were injured.
- Notes
- Also P3577
- Date of Original
- 1945
- Date Of Event
- 1945
- Dimensions
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Width: 5 in
Height: 3.5 in
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- P33
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 48.4001 Longitude: -89.31683
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- Copyright Statement
- Public domain: Copyright has expired according to Canadian law. No restrictions on use.
- Contact
- Thunder Bay Public LibraryEmail:research@tbpl.ca
Website:
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