Obscure disasters (formerly "Ever hear of Texas City Disaster...?)

[AJW]

Not a Particularly large one in terms of numbers but as it happened in a small mining town and most of the victims were young children it’s still well remembered in Britain. There’s a horrible irony that while their fathers were working down the pit in what would be assumed to be some degree of dangers the children were in school seemingly safe.

THE ABERFAN DISASTER