It’s staggering that such an event is likely not known by many, including myself.
You are never too old to learn about history.
And there is plenty of history to learn.
heartbreaking story by the way.
Blown to Halifax.
I imagine that if you went to school in Canada then the explosion is something you were exposed to.
The 1900 Galveston hurricane is not something that most people in the States know much about. Texans, however, are well familiar with it.
I’ve heard the story. 2000 dead...terrible. All that steel flying.
There was a similar accident in Galveston Harbor in the 30’s, IIRC, with Ammonium Nitrate. Apparently, they didn’t realize you couldn’t just fill the hold of a freighter with loose fertilizer and there was a delay in leaving the port that allowed the internal temperature to rise to spontaneous ignition.
The problem with learning history is they’re always making more of it!....................