I looked it up and the number of people killed in the blast was equivalent to ~2% of the city's population at the time. That doesn't necessarily mean the city lost that portion of its population because a decent chunk of those people were non-residents but STILL. fucking crazy
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in reply to @a-new-low's post:
feels great! also the wikipedia article for the texas city disaster has informed me that it was also a French ship that blew up there. i need to get to the bottom of this