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Episode 120: The 1900 Hoboken Docks fire
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:50:12
Publish Date: 2019-08-30 07:48:45
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It was a normal working Saturday at the docks in Hoboken, New Jersey - until it wasn't. After the cotton bales on pier three caught fire so very close to barrels of oil and turpentine, every ship docked along the waterfront was under threat, and not all of them would make it out in one piece.
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