Record #:

23014

Author(s):

Kammerer, Roger

Abstract:

One evening in March 1903, Greenville witnessed a pyrotechnic spectacle when the kerosene and gasoline storage tanks of the Standard Oil Company, along the rail road tracks beside the Imperial Tobacco Company, caught on fire. The whole town shuddered from the force of the explosions.

Source:

Greenville Times / Pitt's Past (NC Microforms), Vol. Issue , Dec 4-17 1996, p9

Subject(s):

Fires--Greenville