The R.B. Grover shoe factory at 963 Main St. was built ... North Pearl St. will open an exhibit commemorating the Grover factory disaster. A brief talk about the disaster will begin about 1: ...

In a disaster at the Grover Shoe Factory in Brockton, Massachusetts, a basement boiler exploded and shot up through the factory’s four stories, hitting a water tower on the roof and impaling a ...

describing the Grover Shoe Factory boiler explosion that killed 58 people. The accident – “The Most Dreadful Disaster in City’s History” – is one of countless events captured in nearly ...