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The Lake Erie Speedboat Disaster
On a hot Saturday morning in June, 1930, eight Toledoans set out on a speedboat to attend an Elks picnic on Pelee Island and never made it. When the boat was found, empty, about 7:30 p.m. later that...
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Ten die in Woodville Road accident
It’s not something today’s drivers think about all that much, but in terms of safety, cars have come a long way in fifty years from the deathtraps they used to be. Even so, coming across the story...
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The Yuma hits the Cherry Street Bridge
It had been a cold winter in Toledo in 1908, cold enough that the Maumee River had become clogged with ice. Lots of ice. When the ice started to melt, and the river began to rise, it spelled disaster...
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Gas tanker explodes on Anthony Wayne Trail
Harold Brandman, a 23-year-old copy clerk for The Blade, was stopped at Logan Street and the Anthony Wayne Trail on a Saturday morning, June 10, 1961, when he heard a loud scraping sound. A Standard...
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The Ohio Fireworks Derecho
When Google put The Blade’s microfilm on line, the second event I went looking for was something I could only vaguely remember: a huge storm on the Fourth of July – 1968, 1969, 1970? – that knocked...
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Toledo’s lesser known tornadoes
When it comes to tornadoes in the Toledo area, the Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of April 11, 1965, which killed 35 people in Northwest Ohio (18 in Lucas and Monroe counties, 13 in Allen and Hancock...
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The Blizzard of 1978
As Toledo greeted the year 1978, it had already been a winter to remember. Another bitterly cold, snow-laden winter, much like the previous winter of 1976-77. On Dec. 5, 1977, an estimated nine inches...
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The Maumee Chemical Co. Explosion
Front page of The Blade May 11, 1962, the day after the Maumee Chemical Co. explosion. Lying on a stretcher at Riverside Hospital, Maumee Chemical Co. employee Van R. Porter of Stony Ridge recalled he...
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