Gone at 3:17: The Untold Story of the Worst School Disaster in American History

by David M. Brown and Michael Wereschagin

At 3:17 p.m. on March 18, 1937, a natural gas leak beneath the London Junior-Senior High School in the oil boomtown of New London, Texas, created a lethal mixture of gas and oxygen in the school's basement. The odorless, colorless gas went undetected until the flip of an electrical switch triggered a colossal blast. The two-story school, one of the nation's most modern, disintegrated, burying everyone under a vast pile of rubble and debris. More than...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1612341535
• ISBN13: 9781612341538
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Potomac Books
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.0"