Casino dig unearths mystery as crews prepare site
According to local historians, engineers and Tribune-Review research, the beams might have formed the foundation of a large iron gas tank that exploded in 1927.
The blast, reported at the time as the largest gas explosion in the world, killed 26 people, leveled much of the North Side and damaged buildings as far as 20 miles away.
Interesting 
I saw that on the news thos morning…wonder if it really is a remnant of one of those gas tanks
theres 26 people in that pic, i guess those are all the ones that died?
thats crazy. i love history stuff like this.
x2. had no idea there was ever an explosion like that.
wow thats pretty cool
yah, you and everyone else. Even the news apparently.
Very interesting
20 miles away was affected, so bridgeville/new kensington/wexford/ buildings were effected by the blast? That seems like a huge radius and im pretty sure thats a lil bit of an exageration.
yeah, if it was affecting those areas imagine what it would have done to downtown… but then again who knows how developed downtown was back then…
x2
I made this to accurately display the 20mile blast radius.
Which is still a hellova distance to cover… IMO theres no way in hell it was 20 miles.
actually i might take that back. from reading darkstars link…
were repairing a leak on top of the largest tank, which had a capacity of 5 million cubic feet. When that tank exploded, it ignited a 4-million-cubic-foot-capacity tank just 200 feet away; then a third tank, this one 500,000 cubic feet, also went up. It was a triple explosion of mammoth, deadly proportions.
thats alot of gas… Its amazing only 26 people died.
After reading the link :stupid:
Great find. I love hearing about local history stuff that isn’t well known.
Very cool article and link. Local history is awesome.
That said, no way there was real building damage 20 miles away from the blast point. If there was, then all of downtown (which was very developed in the 1920s) would have been utterly wiped out.
Would you mind telling me how you figured out the distances and made that map? I need to figure out the radius of 5 airmiles from a specific location.
Thanks
magic :dunno:
