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1910 - High Street Factory Fire

1880 - Celluloid Company

1 files, last one added on Aug 17, 2024
Album viewed 46 times

1886 Essex County Lunatic Asylum

2 files, last one added on Oct 04, 2021
Album viewed 115 times

1900 - Italian Tenement Fire

9 files, last one added on Jan 28, 2020
Album viewed 196 times

1904 - 87 Mechanic Street - Wiener & Co.

3 files, last one added on Jul 27, 2018
Album viewed 196 times

1905 - Art Metal Works

2 files, last one added on Feb 16, 2018
Album viewed 386 times

1906 - Radel & Mentz

1 files, last one added on Aug 09, 2024
Album viewed 44 times

1908 - 233 High Street Fire

2 files, last one added on Oct 10, 2024
Album viewed 47 times

1908 - 306 Springfield Avenue Fire

2 files, last one added on Oct 10, 2024
Album viewed 53 times

1909 - Boyd Street Fire

2 files, last one added on Oct 04, 2024
Album viewed 47 times

1909 - Down-Plum Factory

2 files, last one added on Oct 07, 2024
Album viewed 46 times

1909 - Seashell Moving Picture Theatre Fire

2 files, last one added on Aug 11, 2024
Album viewed 292 times

1918 - American Button Factory Fire

4 files, last one added on Jan 20, 2020
Album viewed 118 times

1920 - Newark Hardware Company

1 files, last one added on Jan 16, 2015
Album viewed 321 times

1939 - Celanese Fire

1 files, last one added on Mar 20, 2019
Album viewed 144 times

1947 - Celanese Fire

4 files, last one added on Mar 07, 2019
Album viewed 161 times

1951 - Warren Petroleum Co.

1 files, last one added on Mar 01, 2007
Album viewed 422 times

1953 - Budweiser Fire

2 files, last one added on Aug 17, 2024
Album viewed 51 times

732 Broad Street Building Collaspe

2 files, last one added on Oct 09, 2016
Album viewed 293 times

Ironbound Fire/Market Street

6 files, last one added on Apr 03, 2009
Album viewed 451 times

N. J. Central abandoned Oil Drums

1 files, last one added on Aug 15, 2024
Album viewed 49 times

Miscellaneous

2 files, last one added on Sep 10, 2024
Album viewed 52 times

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July 7, 19512144 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.