[PRCo] The gas explosion

[Schneider Fred]

Here is a link to a photo of the damage across the street from the  
gas explosion at 1212-1218 Reesdale St. nee Rebecca St. in November  
1927.   You will have to cut and paste the link back together.
The name of the cross street is misspelled.   It is Fontella, not  
Frontella.  It is where Reesdale has the bend in it about half way  
between Galveston (the Manchester Bridge) and Beaver.

http://images.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/i/image/image-idx? 
sid=c0f72f738c9cdf15dadc923091b52872;g=imls;med=1;q1=manchester;rgn1=cp_ 
all;size=20;c=cp;lasttype=boolean;view=entry;lastview=thumbnail;subview= 
detail;cc=cp;entryid=x-715.275490.cp;viewid=275490CP.TIF;start=1;resnum= 
19

If you wish to see the tanks on a map:   If you google ", Historic  
Pittsburgh Maps"   You should find an entry marked Historic  
Pittsburgh - Map Collections.  Digital library pitt.edu/maps/.    
Click on it.   Then click on the top line ... City of Pittsburgh  
Geodetic and Topgraphic Survey Maps 1923-1961.   When it opens scroll  
down to the locator map:    6th row down, 5th column  from the left  
to the right ... click on field No. 7.   Then find the Reedsdale  
Street ... you'll see the three round gas accumulators before the  
explosion.