EPISODE · Jul 29, 2026 · 1 MIN
July 29 - An Unlucky Day at Shamrock
from Labor History in 2:00 · host The Rick Smith Show
On this day in Labor History the year was 1956. That was the day that an oil tank explosion took the lives of nineteen men fighting a fire at Shamrock Oil and Gas company in the northeast of Dumas, Texas. Dumas was in the Texas panhandle, oil boom country. The day after the tragedy, the Chicago Daily Tribune carried the story of what happened.
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