The New London Gas Sander: Oil Field Tap That Killed 295 Students When a Teacher Switched It On
Published June 28, 2026
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Three seventeen in the afternoon. Thursday, March 18, 1937. New London, Texas. A manual training teacher named Lemmie Butler crosses his shop room floor toward a power sander. He flips the switch. The building lifts off the ground. The entire structure — a steel-framed, E-shaped building that had cost close to one mi…
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