When dynamite truck blew up, it looked like nuclear war

Published: Feb. 29, 2024, 2 p.m.

A truck driver parked 13,000 pounds of explosives next to the hardware store downtown. That night the hardware store caught fire \u2026 and so did the dynamite, in the biggest human-caused disaster in Oregon history. (Roseburg, Douglas County; 1950s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1102c-roseburg-blast-looked-like-nuclear-war.html)