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1957 Press Photo explosion, Dearborn, Charles Taylor

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Caption: Miraculously, no one was killed. But more than 20 were injured as an explosion in a drier oven slashed through a building of Ford's Rouge plant in Dearborn Monday evening. Some 500 feet of brick and glass wall were blown out. Fire followed the explosion. All Dearborn ambulances and several from Detroit were called to the scence. Two persons were in critical condition. Witnesses said metal and glass zipped through the area. One employee said it looked as if the plant had been bombed. Victim Charles Taylor.

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