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1910 - High Street Factory Fire

1900 - Italian Tenement Fire

9 files, last one added on Jan 28, 2020
Album viewed 36 times

1904 - 87 Mechanic Street - Wiener & Co.

3 files, last one added on Jul 27, 2018
Album viewed 106 times

1905 - Art Metal Works

2 files, last one added on Feb 16, 2018
Album viewed 300 times

1909 - Seashell Moving Picture Theatre Fire

1 files, last one added on Nov 29, 2015
Album viewed 196 times

1918 - American Button Factory Fire

4 files, last one added on Jan 20, 2020
Album viewed 23 times

1920 - Newark Hardware Company

1 files, last one added on Jan 16, 2015
Album viewed 217 times

1939 - Celanese Fire

1 files, last one added on Mar 20, 2019
Album viewed 54 times

1947 - Celanese Fire

4 files, last one added on Mar 07, 2019
Album viewed 57 times

1951 - Warren Petroleum Co.

1 files, last one added on Mar 01, 2007
Album viewed 333 times

732 Broad Street Building Collaspe

2 files, last one added on Oct 09, 2016
Album viewed 196 times

Ironbound Fire/Market Street

6 files, last one added on Apr 03, 2009
Album viewed 346 times

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July 7, 1951856 viewsFrom Robert Baptista:
I was living in Elizabeth at the time of the explosion but was too young to recall it now. My online newspaper archive indicates it happened at 1PM July 7, 1951 at the Warren Petroleum Co. 82 acre tank farm on Newark Bay. 125 Propane tanks blew up causing a fire that took six hours to bring under control. Flames shot up hundreds of feet and the smoke was visible to people in Manhattan skyscrapers and on Brooklyn beaches. Heat and a concussion shock wave were felt five miles away. The fire blew up seven rail tankcars on a siding next to Warren. A section of a tankcar flew a half-mile, landing on a gas station which ignited. Seventy-five men were working at the Warren site. Eleven men were injured but no lives were lost. The victims were treated at St. James Hospital. Property damage to Warren Petroleum and nearby plants was estimated at $5 million. Except for a favorable wind, 1.5 million gallons of gasoline stored at the Atlantic Petroleum Co. would have blown up. The cause of the explosion was not immediately known but all possibilites were being investigated including sabotage.