TEXAS CITY, Texas (AP) — This week marks 72 years since thousands of lives were changed forever in the United States’ deadliest industrial accident. That day still seems fresh — remembered in vivid and awful detail — by those who lived through it.
“I was walking to school that day — we lived at the corner of Dock Road and Third Street,” said Ernestine Garza Moreno, who was 17 at the time of the disaster. “When I felt the first blast, by the grace of God, I cried out ‘save me’ and threw a coat over me. When I finally got up, everyone around was dead except for me.”
The Galveston County Daily News reports Moreno was one of about 100 survivors of the 1947 Texas City disaster who gathered Saturday to remember those who died that day.
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