Gone at 3:17 : the untold story of the worst school disaster in American history

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Gone at 3:17 : the untold story of the worst school disaster in American history

Title remainder

the untold story of the worst school disaster in American history

Statement of responsibility

David M. Brown and Michael Wereschagin

Creator

• Brown, David M., (David Mark), 1948-

Contributor

• Wereschagin, Michael

Subject

• Biographies
• Consolidated School (New London, Tex.)
• Consolidated School (New London, Tex.) -- History -- 20th century
• Disaster victims
• Disaster victims -- Texas | New London -- Biography
• Disasters
• Disasters -- Texas | New London -- History -- 20th century
• EDUCATION -- Secondary
• Electronic books
• Explosions
• Explosions -- Texas | New London -- History -- 20th century
• High schools
• High schools -- Texas | New London -- History -- 20th century
• History
• New London (Tex.) -- Biography
• New London (Tex.) -- History -- 20th century
• Texas -- New London
• 1900-1999

Genre

• Biography
• Electronic books
• History
• Biographies

Language

eng

Summary

How a town lost its future. At 3:17 p.m. on March 18, 1937, a natural gas leak beneath the London Junior-Senior High School in the oil boomtown of New London, Texas, created a lethal mixture of gas and oxygen in the school's basement. The odorless, colorless gas went undetected until the flip of an electrical switch triggered a colossal blast. The two-story school, one of the nation's most modern, disintegrated, burying everyone under a vast pile of rubble and debris. More than 300 students and teachers were killed, and hundreds more were injured. As the seventy-fifth anniversary of the catastrophe approaches, it remains the deadliest school disaster in U.S. history. Few, however, know of this historic tragedy, and no book, until now, has chronicled the explosion, its cause, its victims, and the aftermath. Gone at 3:17 is a true story of what can happen when school officials make bad decisions. To save money on heating the school building, the trustees had ..

Biography type

contains biographical information

Cataloging source

N$T

Dewey number

373.764/185

Index

index present

LC call number

LD7501.N4662

LC item number

B76 2012eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography