Scenes from the 1944 East Ohio Gas Co. Explosion

The East Ohio Gas Co. explosion's epicenter was just north of St. Clair, where East 61st Street dead-ends today.

Buildings across the area of 160 football fields were damaged or outright destroyed.

Men investigate a burned-out car near the Whiteway Stamping Co.

Ruptured sewer lines steeple the roadway along St. Clair.