
Episode 125: The Love Canal
Well There‘s Your Problem
00:00
The Killer in the Attic
This safety third is a tragic tale for my family's past and the days just before workplace protection protections were really a thing. The following is largely a summary of the only complete account of the incident I could find written by John Stark Bellamy II in his book, The Killer in the Attic. Our story takes place in Cleveland, Ohio in nineteen ninety eight. Eight were injured, but no fatalities can occur during that incident. But October 16th, 1928, around 730 p.m. about where the intersection of West Prospect and West Superior is today, the Patrick's Tule and Cleary had just finished digging a tapered shaft 103 feet deep. And the adjacent shaft that they
Transcript
Play full episode