Read full article: Community holds ceremony to commemorate 75th anniversary of 1947 Texas City Disaster The Texas City community will hold a ceremony to commemorate 75 years since the 1947 Texas ...

The 1947 Texas City explosions killed at least 576 people and destroyed at least 1,000 buildings. FOX 26's Jade Flury spoke to a survivor at the city's ceremony on Saturday. Federal judge blocks ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. On Wednesday, April 16, 1947, one of the deadliest disasters in United ...

Then the line went dead. For us, that's how the Texas City disaster began. There was no freeway then. At Dickinson, the sky was black with smoke from blazing tanks of crude oil, gasoline ...