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 ...

April 13.-The R. B. Grover Company and its agents were declared to-day by Judge Fred M. Bixby to be blameless for the explosion which destroyed its shoe factory here on March 20 and caused the ...

The Pemberton Mill, a large cotton goods factory, collapses without warning ... In the worst mining disaster in American history, an underground explosion kills 362 out of the 380 men and boys ...