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The Day a Texas School Vanished: New London's Invisible Killer Explosion
The Day a Texas School Vanished: New London's Invisible Killer Explosion
A two-ton block of concrete crushed a 1936 Chevrolet two hundred feet from where it started, and the final recorded death toll was two hundred ninety-four - most were students in grades five through eleven. How did a spark from an electric sander meet an invisible, odorless gas that had been accumulating for weeks beneath a school and erase an entire wing in one second?
In this episode, we tell what happened at London School on Thursday, March 18, 1937, how local decisions about heating and a clandestine gas tap created…
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