In the early morning of Aug. 27, 1955, the Standard Oil
refinery in Whiting, Ind., was rocked by a titanic explosion. The destruction
that followed still ranks as one of the most monumental industrial accidents
in United States history -- 60 years later. An estimated 1.25 million barrels
of crude oil and refined product burned and went up in smoke.
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Your humble blogger recalls standing in
his front yard, at the age of almost 10, and seeing the giant pillar of black
smoke in the sky about 7 or 8 miles away.
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