TEXAS CITY, Texas (KTRK) -- Two survivors remember the horror of the massive explosion at the Texas City port that killed hundreds of people on April 16, 1947. Lynn Ray Ellison was six years old, and ...

The Texas City disaster occurred on April 16, 1947, and was the worst industrial accident in United States history. The explosion, originating as a fire on the SS Grandcamp that quickly spread, killed ...

Seventy-three years ago, on an April morning at the port of Texas City near Galveston, crew members of the SS Grandcamp were busy loading thousands of pounds of ammonium nitrate. “It was the beginning ...

The deadly explosion at a fertilizer plant that ripped through the town of West, Texas, on Wednesday, stirred echoes of one of the worst industrial accidents in United States history, which struck the ...

I write about the people, places, culture and history of Austin and Texas. A native Texan, I earned my Ph.D at the University of Texas. First as an arts reporter and critic, I've written for the ...