Haugue Street Calamity, 1850, New York

  Sun 6/30/2013

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Until the infamous Triangle Shirtwaist fire of 1911, New York’s most notorious industrial accident was the Hague Street Calamity of 1850, where more than sixty men and boys were killed in a boiler explosion that demolished two buildings. It took several days to identify some of the remains.

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