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Brooklyn Today
ON THIS DAY in 1915, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle published an article titled “5 Dead, Many Hurt As Tanks Blow Up.”
The article focused on a gas explosion that wrecked a plant in Brooklyn.
“Four boys and one man were killed, and more than a dozen were injured at noon today when two big gasoline tanks in the factory of the Crew-Levick Company at Atlantic and Montauk avenues, East New York, exploded,” the Eagle reported.