Continuing on the Fire Fighter theme from this week, today we take a look at the Western Reserve Fire Museum. I have been wanting to check this museum out for a while and finally this week I did. Wow, it was awesome! The Fire Museum is located in the old fire station number 28 which […]
The Cleveland Clinic fire would occur on the morning of May 15, 1929 and claim 123 lives. The Cleveland Clinic is one of the best medical facilities in the world. It started in 1921 with a team of doctors who returned from France after World War I. The clinic was originally located near E. 93rd […]
On November 16, 1895 around 7:00 pm, Cleveland City Railroad electric street car #642, plunged off the Central Viaduct bridge straight into the Cuyahoga River killing 17 people. The Central Viaduct bridge opened in December 1888. It was one of several bridges that traversed the Cuyahoga River. It was 101 feet over the river and […]
The worst industrial accident in Cleveland’s history occurred on October 20, 1944 when the East Ohio Gas Company exploded and wiped out an entire neighborhood. The East Ohio Gas Company was located near St. Clair and E. 55th Streets in the heart of the Slovenian community. It killed 130 people, 61 one of which were […]
On October 16, 1928, two men, Patrick Toolis and Patrick Cleary, were buried alive in concrete while working on the construction of Terminal Tower in downtown Cleveland. They were working at the bottom of a 103 foot deep shaft in what would become a terminal death pit for them both. Construction of Terminal Tower would […]
