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1947 Texas City Disaster Please keep checking back periodically. The texas City Disaster. April 16, 1947. The day. Read the texas City, texas, Disaster Report. http://www.local1259iaff.org/disaster.html
Extractions: This Page will be changing over the next few months as I add more pictures and information to it. Please keep checking back periodically. The Texas City Disaster April 16, 1947 The morning of 16 April 1947 dawned clear and crisp, cooled by a brisk north wind. Just before 8:00 A.M., longshoremen removed the hatch covers on Hold 4 of the French Liberty ship Grandcamp as they prepared to load the remainder of a consignment of ammonium nitrate fertilizer. Some 2,300 tons were already onboard, 880 of which were in the lower part of Hold 4. The remainder of the ship's cargo consisted of large balls of sisal twine, peanuts, drilling equipment, tobacco, cotton, and a few cases of small ammunition. No special safety precautions were in focus at the time. Several longshoremen descended into the hold and waited for the first pallets holding the 100-pound packages to be hoisted from dockside. Soon thereafter, someone smelled smoke. A plume was observed rising between the cargo holds and the ships hull, apparently about seven or eight layers of sacks down. Neither a gallon jug of drinking water nor the contents of two fire extinguishers supplied by crew members seemed to do much good. As the fire continued to grow, someone lowered a fire hose, but the water was not turned on. Since the area was filling fast with smoke, the longshoremen were ordered out of the hold.
The Explosion: 50 Years Later, Texas City Still Remembers When someone in texas City mentions The Explosion, no explanation is necessary. Everybody loss. Moore Memorial Public Library, texas City. http://www.chron.com/content/chronicle/metropolitan/txcity/
Extractions: 'Texas City just blew up' Like the Phoenix, Texas City rose from the ashes Children scattered as blast ended school Engineer helped recovery ... Survivor's story Historical Photos: The Devastation The Explosive Power The Human Toll Answering the Call for Help ... Back to HCI When someone in Texas City mentions "The Explosion," no explanation is necessary. Everybody in the city knows what happened on April 16, 1947. Many remember it firsthand. That cool spring morning when a ship blew up in the port on Galveston Bay. The blast took nearly 600 lives and millions of dollars in property, and it scarred the town. A half-century later, people in Texas City celebrate their recovery, but still mourn their loss. Moore Memorial Public Library, Texas City
The Explosion: 50 Years Later, Texas City Still Remembers texas City just blew up . By STEVE OLAFSON Houston Chronicle. texas CITY On the morning of April 16, 1947, shortly after 8 am, the hatch on the No. http://www.chron.com/content/chronicle/metropolitan/txcity/main.html
Extractions: Home Like the Phoenix, Texas City rose from the ashes Children scattered as blast ended school Engineer helped recovery ... Survivor's Story Historical photos: The Devastation The Explosive Power The Human Toll Answering the Call for Help George Sanders, 21 at the time of the blast, had worked on the Grandcamp the day before the disaster. He was watching the fire at the end of the slip when the ship exploded. "God was with me," he says, "It wasn't my time." Houston Chronicle TEXAS CITY - On the morning of April 16, 1947, shortly after 8 a.m., the hatch on the No. 4 hold of the French ship the S.S. Grandcamp was opened so that stevedores could resume loading a shipment of fertilizer bound for Europe. It was the beginning of a beautiful, cool day, a breeze was coming out of the north, and Texas City was at work again. Much of the rest of the country, still in the grip of a postwar recession, couldn't say that, but Texas City was different. Along the waterfront, there was plenty of work for the town's longshoremen, and next to the wharf stood a hissing, steaming landscape of chemical plants and oil refineries that provided steady, good-paying jobs for much of the town.
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Home Page Port Of Texas City Progress Built On Vision. Welcome to the official website of The Port of texas City The texas City Terminal Railway Company. The http://www.railporttc.com/
Extractions: The Texas City Terminal Railway Company provides an important land link to the port, handling over 25,000 car loads per year. The Port of Texas City's success as a privately owned port has been aided by its shareholders, The Union Pacific and Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroads whose connections allow for expeditious interchange of their traffic. Port crews provide switching in the Texas City area, inside the Port and for all industries and businesses requiring rail services. Connections with main lines are made daily by the switching terminal at two junctions within six miles of the main classification yard.
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Texas City, Texas - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia texas City, texas. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. texas City is a city located in Galveston County, texas. As of the 2000 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_City,_Texas
Extractions: Texas City is a city located in Galveston County Texas . As of the census, the city had a total population of 41,521. The city suffered from the Texas City disaster on April 16 edit Texas City is located at 29°23'60" North, 94°56'2" West (29.399983, -94.933851) According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 433.1 km² mi² ). 161.5 km² (62.4 mi²) of it is land and 271.6 km² (104.9 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 62.70% water. edit As of the census of , there are 41,521 people, 15,479 households, and 10,974 families residing in the city. The population density is 257.0/km² (665.7/mi²). There are 16,715 housing units at an average density of 103.5/km² (268.0/mi²). The racial makeup of the city is 60.75% White, 27.47% African American Native American Asian , 0.05% Pacific Islander, 8.23% from other races, and 2.12% from two or more races. 20.52% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 15,479 households out of which 33.1% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 48.6% are married couples living together, 17.3% have a female householder with no husband present, and 29.1% are non-families. 24.8% of all households are made up of individuals and 9.3% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.62 and the average family size is 3.13. In the city the population is spread out with 26.7% under the age of 18, 9.6% from 18 to 24, 27.8% from 25 to 44, 22.4% from 45 to 64, and 13.4% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 36 years. For every 100 females there are 89.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 84.7 males.
Texas City Forecasts ST STATION ICAO IATA SYNOP LAT LONG ELEV S T U F H TX ABILENE KABI ABI 72266 32 25N 099 41W 542 X X A TX ABILENE/DYESS KDYS DYS 32 26N 099 50W 546 X X A TX http://nimbus.met.tamu.edu/personnel/students/weather/htmls/tx2.html
Extractions: ST STATION ICAO IATA SYNOP LAT LONG ELEV S T U F H TX ABILENE KABI ABI 72266 32 25N 099 41W 542 X X A TX ABILENE/DYESS KDYS DYS 32 26N 099 50W 546 X X A TX ALICE KALI ALI 27 44N 098 02W 54 X D TX AMARILLO KAMA AMA 72363 35 14N 101 42W 1099 X X X X A TX AUSTIN KAUS AUS 72254 30 18N 097 42W 192 X X A TX AUSTIN KBSM BSM 30 13N 097 40W 165 X A TX BEAUMONT KBPT BPT 72241 29 57N 094 01W 5 X A TX BROWNSVILLE KBRO BRO 72250 25 54N 097 26W 7 X X X X A TX CANADIAN KHHF HHF 35 55N 100 22W 712 X TX CHASE FLD NAS KNIR NIR 28 22N 097 44W 58 X X A TX CHILDRESS KCDS CDS 34 26N 100 17W 595 X D TX COLLEGE STATION KCLL CLL 30 35N 096 22W 97 X A TX CORPUS CHRISTI KCRP CRP 72251 27 46N 097 30W 13 X X A TX CORPUS CHRISTI KNGP NGP 27 42N 097 17W 6 A TX COTULLA KCOT COT 28 27N 099 13W 144 C TX DALHART KDHT DHT 36 01N 102 33W 1216 X D TX DALLAS/LOVE FLD.
Texas :: Texas City Preserve The texas City Prairie Preserve features rare coastal prairie habitat and is one of the last remaining sites that support wild Attwater s prairie chickens. http://nature.org/wherewework/northamerica/states/texas/preserves/texascity.html
Extractions: The Texas City Preserve features rare coastal prairie habitat and is one of the last remaining sites that supports wild Attwater's prairie chickens. At the turn of the century, there were approximately 1 million Attwater's prairie chickens along the Texas coast. However, loss of coastal prairie habitat over the years devastated the population, and less than 50 remain in the wild today, making the bird one of the most endangered in North America. The recovery program for the Attwater's prairie chicken has included the introduction of captive-bred juvenile birds into the wild at the preserve each summer since 1996. The birds are monitored and a survey of their numbers is taken every spring. Restoration of the coastal prairie is a primary stewardship activity on the preserve. Cattle grazing, which has occurred on the prairie since the late 1800s, continues to provide a substitute for the wandering herds of bison that are no longer present.
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No. 1138: The Texas City Disaster texas City, Roseburg, World Trade Center, Oklahoma City a story of fertilizer and cigarettes. No. 1138 THE texas CITY DISASTER. http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi1138.htm
Extractions: by John H. Lienhard Click here for audio of Episode 1138. Today's story is about cigarettes and fertilizer. The University of Houston's College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them. O n April 19, 1995, some murderers parked a U-Haul truck filled with only slightly modified ammonium nitrate fertilizer in front of an Oklahoma City office building. They ignited it, killed 168 people, and injured 600 more. That was 48 years and two days after a far larger charge of the same material had gone off accidentally here in Texas. Hugh Stephens tells how, on April 16th, 1947, two Liberty ships docked at Texas City on the Houston ship channel the Grandcamp and the High Flyer . Both were loading cargoes of that same fertilizer. The Grandcamp held 2300 tons the High Flyer , 1000 tons. The rest of High Flyer 's cargo was sulfur. At 8:00 that morning, a small fire broke out in one of the
