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1 online resource |
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; 1: 3:16 p.m.; Part I. Calm; 2 Daybreak, March 18; 3 The Superintendent; 4 Sweet Chariot; 5 Pleasant Hill; 6 American Dreams; 7 Wildcats' Pep Rally; 8 Farmer's Boy; 9 The Black Giant; 10 Lunchtime; 11 Fateful Afternoon; 12 Last Dance; Part II. Terror; 13: 3:17 p.m.; 14 Thunder on a Clear Day; 15 Newshounds; 16 Holy Sisters; 17 Radio Man; 18 Into the Ruins; 19 Newsflash; 20 A Blue Patch of Sky; 21 Valley of Death at Sundown; 22 Mother Frances; 23 Midnight of the Soul; 24 Dawn, March 19; 25 Hard News; Part III. Aftermath, March 20-29; 26 Coffin Train |
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27 Reckoning28 Lament; 29 Amazing Grace; 30 Survivors Assembly, March 29; Part IV. Epilogue; 31 Reunion; 32 A Final Word; In Memoriam; Interviews; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; About the Authors |
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How a town lost its future. At 3:17 p.m. on March 18, 1937, a natural gas leak beneath the London Junior-Senior High School in the oil boomtown of New London, Texas, created a lethal mixture of gas and oxygen in the school's basement. The odorless, colorless gas went undetected until the flip of an electrical switch triggered a colossal blast. The two-story school, one of the nation's most modern, disintegrated, burying everyone under a vast pile of rubble and debris. More than 300 students and teachers were killed, and hundreds more were injured. As the seventy-fifth anniversary of the catastrophe approaches, it remains the deadliest school disaster in U.S. history. Few, however, know of this historic tragedy, and no book, until now, has chronicled the explosion, its cause, its victims, and the aftermath. Gone at 3:17 is a true story of what can happen when school officials make bad decisions. To save money on heating the school building, the trustees had .. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
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Consolidated School (New London, Tex.) -- History -- 20th century
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Consolidated School (New London, Tex.) fast |
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Explosions -- Texas -- New London -- History -- 20th century
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Disasters -- Texas -- New London -- History -- 20th century
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High schools -- Texas -- New London -- History -- 20th century
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Disaster victims -- Texas -- New London -- Biography
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EDUCATION -- Secondary.
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Disaster victims
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Disasters
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Explosions
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High schools
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New London (Tex.) -- Biography
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New London (Tex.) -- History -- 20th century
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Texas -- New London
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collective biographies.
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Biographies
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History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Wereschagin, Michael
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| ISBN |
9781612341545 |
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1612341543 |
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