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Friday Jul 29, 2016
July 29 An Unlucky Day at Shamrock
Friday Jul 29, 2016
Friday Jul 29, 2016
On this day in Labor History the year was 1956. That was the day that an oil tank explosion took the lives of nineteen men fighting a fire at Shamrock Oil and Gas company in the northeast of Dumas, Texas. Dumas was in the Texas panhandle, oil boom country. The day after the tragedy, the Chicago Daily Tribune carried the story of what happened.
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