Blast Rips Oregon Town
Blast Rips Oregon Town
Clip: 356390_1_1
Year Shot: 1959
(Actual Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 1662
Original Film: 032-064-02
HD: N/A
Location: Roseburg, Oregon
Timecode: 00:46:25 - 00:47:35
Blast Rips Oregon Town Roseburg, Oregon, is ripped by the explosion of a truck carrying 6 1/2 tons of explosives, in the center of the business district. An eight block area is blasted to rubble, with buildings 28 blocks around badly damaged. The toll, $10 million in property, and at least 13 dead. Aerial shows smoldering buildings. Long pans of devastation and wreckage in the aftermath. One destroyed truck (?) says "FUEL" on it. No people are seen, giving it an even more devastated/abandoned feel. (This could pass for damage from war, perhaps.)