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The Bowery Boys and the Black Tom Explosion
Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
The Black Tom's Explosion
A year after the black tom explosion, sabatours struck at another munitions factory just eight miles away in kingsland. The explosions resulted in over 20 million dollars in damages in 19 16 dollars, which is about 500 million dollars worth of damage to day. A brave switchboard operator named tessie macnmera stayed at her post as the explosion was happening here at kingsland and trans mitted a message to all the buildings on the site. And so because of her, no one died in the kingsland explosion.
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