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Air Disasters
:: Cambridge, OH Shenandoah Dirigible Wreck, Sept 1925 
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Explosions
:: Cincinnati, OH Building Explosion, May 1896
:: Cleveland, OH Clinic Explosion and Fire, May 1929
:: Cleveland, OH Water Works Tunnel Explosion, Jul 1898 
:: Sandusky, OH Explosion Jan 1908
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Fires
:: Cleveland, OH Sheets Brothers' Grain Elevator Fire Aug 1904
:: Cleveland, OH Koch & Henke Store Fire, May 1912
:: Collinwood, OH Terrible School Fire, Mar 1908
:: Columbus, OH Apartment Fire May 1919  
:: Elyria, OH Fire, May 1896 
:: Fayette, OH Fire June 1908
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Fredericktown, OH Fire, Aug 1913

:: Galena, OH Post Office Fire, Apr 1947 
:: Lancaster, OH Log Cabin Fire 1947  HELP WANTED
:: Marion, OH Olney Avenue School Building Fire, Jan 1914 
:: Massillon, OH Witherald & Wells Window Glass Works Fire, Aug 1886 
:: Newark, OH Wehrle Building Fire, Dec 1910
:: Portsmouth, OH Gilbert Grocery Fire Oct 1910
:: Toledo, OH Elevator Fire Dec 1894
:: Youngstown, OH Todd House Fire Oct 1910
:: Zanesville, OH H. Weber Sons' Store Fire 1910 
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Floods
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Athens, OH Flood, Mar 1907

:: Cincinnati, OH Flood May 1883 
:: Cleveland, OH Flood Feb 1896 
:: Ohio Flood 1913
:: Marietta, OH Flood, Mar 1913
:: Portsmouth, OH Flood, Jan 1907
:: Prospect, OH 1913 Flood 
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Storms
:: Cincinnati, OH Storm May 1903 
:: Kenton, OH Storm, May 1886 
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Springfield, OH Storm, May 1896 

:: Willoughby, OH Storm, May 1893 
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Tornadoes
:: Celina, OH Tornado, May 1886 
:: Cleveland, OH Tornado, May 1893 
:: Cincinnati, OH Tornado, July 1915
:: Findlay, OH Tornado, May 1893 
:: Fremont, OH Tornado, Apr 1896
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Forest, OH Tornado, May 1886

:: Kunkle, OH Tornado, May 1894 
:: Lorain, OH Tornado, June 1924
:: Seneca County, OH Tornado "The Burlington Storm," May 1825
:: Sharon, OH Tornado Apr 1890 
:: Washington Court House, OH Tornado, Jul 1915
:: Sandusky Co., OH Tornado, Apr 1896

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:: Alliance, OH Marchand's Opera House Collapse, Jun 1886 
:: Cleveland, OH Koch & Henke Store Collapse, Nov 1910 
:: Cleveland, OH Viaduct Collapse 1888 
:: Sandusky, OH West's Hotel Balcony Collapse, Jun 1860
   
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