In 1944 East Ohio Gas Company Explosion and Fire - 130 dead, 61 burned beyond identification.? If you google that I am sure you will find some good articles about the disaster. -----Original Message----- From: Dennis Kowallek <kowallek@iglou.com> To: ohcuyaho@rootsweb.com Sent: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 11:45 am Subject: Re: [OHCUYAHO] Explosion in Cleveland On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 08:28:49 -0700 (PDT), Christine Hodges Smith <christyhodges50@yahoo.com> wrote: >Does any one know anything about a big explosion in 1940. > All I know about it is John Finnerty was killed in it . > I know he was a switchman on the railroad there. > Grandmother Nina Finnerty would never talk about it. > I do hope someone can enlighten me about this. The only John FINNERTY who died in 1940 in Ohio seems to have died of natural causes according to the Ohio Death Certs at... http://search.labs.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html There is also only this one listed in the Necrology DB. Where did you get this info? -- Dennis Kowallek Cincinnati, Ohio kowallek@iglou.com ****************** ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to OHCUYAHO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

As others have pointed out there is a listing for John FINNERTY died from apparent natural causes.... However there is a Thomas FINNERTY who died on the exact day of the East Ohio Gas Co Explosion Oct 20, 1944 Viewing his Death Certificate he as a Watchman at East Ohio Gas and died from "burns of the body... from failure of liquid natural gas holders... followed by fire" http://search.labs.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html# Robert Jerin Croatian Heritage Museum Cleveland Ohio bhurst1948@aol.com wrote: In 1944 East Ohio Gas Company Explosion and Fire - 130 dead, 61 burned beyond identification.? If you google that I am sure you will find some good articles about the disaster. -----Original Message----- From: Dennis Kowallek To: ohcuyaho@rootsweb.com Sent: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 11:45 am Subject: Re: [OHCUYAHO] Explosion in Cleveland On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 08:28:49 -0700 (PDT), Christine Hodges Smith wrote: >Does any one know anything about a big explosion in 1940. > All I know about it is John Finnerty was killed in it . > I know he was a switchman on the railroad there. > Grandmother Nina Finnerty would never talk about it. > I do hope someone can enlighten me about this. The only John FINNERTY who died in 1940 in Ohio seems to have died of natural causes according to the Ohio Death Certs at... http://search.labs.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html There is also only this one listed in the Necrology DB. Where did you get this info? -- Dennis Kowallek Cincinnati, Ohio kowallek@iglou.com ****************** ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to OHCUYAHO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to OHCUYAHO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message "Each U.S. taxpayer toils 197 days, gives 53.9% of income to local, state, federal governments"