Westside Booms

[MTigers006]

Over here on the west side of town we have been hearing a series of Booms. Some very loud some not so loud. This has been going on for a week to a week and a half and im concerned. It sounds like very powerful Fireworks. Does anyone know what is going on and could it be related to the story about underground abandoned mines in the area that was in Tuesdays Repository? Fyrewood? Anyone?

[tigergirl]

We heard that here on the NE side last week. Seems like every 15m or so we would hear it.

[MTigers006]

What im thinking and I dont know if im close is they are imploding abandoned mines with dynomite??? Thats what it puts me in the mind of and nothing in either newspaper about it. Strange.

[Al.]

Maybe it is from all of the fireworks that they did not shoot-off Saturday night at the Cruise-On-In :mad:

[Paul Brown]

What im thinking and I dont know if im close is they are imploding abandoned mines with dynomite??? Thats what it puts me in the mind of and nothing in either newspaper about it. Strange.

:wall:

[MTigers006]

Good point AL. This has been going on almost two weeks though.

[Tiger2001]

We heard that here on the NE side last week. Seems like every 15m or so we would hear it.

I havent heard anything. Im NE.


:scratchchin:

[Al.]

Good point AL. This has been going on almost two weeks though.

.....or just maybe it is from all of the thunderstorms we've had :scratchchin:

[TigerVic]

Are we playing McK soon?

[MTigers006]

Seriously guys. I wonder what it is and whats going on?

[TigerBuckeye313]

i heard the booms that you are talking about but my friends and I couldn't figure out what they were or where they were coming from.

[hexumjunkie]

Im Gonnna Go Out On A Limb And Say....the Fireworks Store Has Opened And Kids Will Be Kids.... I Say Good For Them Let Them Have A Lil Fun...todays Youth Could Use It...

[bs.gunn]

Mines in the area (http://www.cantonrep.com/index.php?ID=416816&r=0&Category=9&subCategoryID=0)

Anyone else know about this?

Doesn't say anything about blowing them up though. Probably just some people out on the west side blowing up quarter sticks of dynamite for fun

[BigTime]

Im Gonnna Go Out On A Limb And Say....the Fireworks Store Has Opened And Kids Will Be Kids.... I Say Good For Them Let Them Have A Lil Fun...todays Youth Could Use It...

All ATF class "C" explosives (leagal consumer grade fireworks) are pretty tame and would more than likely not be the source of preceived large "booms". What you are hearing are more than likely illegal fireworks ("real" M80s, M100s etc).

[02teleprograd]

Maybe its Urban hood driving around with there 15 inch subs.:oops:

[Seeker]

Mines in the area (http://www.cantonrep.com/index.php?ID=416816&r=0&Category=9&subCategoryID=0)

Anyone else know about this?

Doesn't say anything about blowing them up though. Probably just some people out on the west side blowing up quarter sticks of dynamite for fun

Oh yea...in fact, since we live in Stark County, we have to have a rider on our home owner's insurance for "mine subsidence".

At one time, during the height of the canal era, there were 110 separate mines operating on the banks of the Tusc between Massillon and Canal Fulton.

One area of Massillon is completely riddled underground with criss-crosses of mine shafts. It is loosely bordered by Wellman on the south, Seventh St. on the west, and Wales on the east. I'm not sure how far north the area goes.

In fact, the old ice cream parlor near Longfellow, Jackman's, was originally built as a coal company office.

[tigergirl]

Interesting, Seeker.

Are we playing McK soon?

That's exactly what it sounded like! The same sound you would hear on McK Sat every 15min or so.

I can't say we'd hear it during the day here on the NE side, but when we heard it it was around 11p-12a while sitting outside. Noticed it around the time that Bolivar/Beach City/Brewster (some city with a B!) had their festival a weekend or so ago. We thought it had to do with that.

[Tiger77]

We heard a bunch of booms in a row last night out off of Kenyon. Couldn't identify the sound but we thought someone was shooting a gun. They went on for about a half hour and were spaced just a few minutes apart. We've heard them a few times the past week or so. Probably fireworks.

[The Butler]

Any chance it was fireworks from the Christian music festival at Clay's Park? The wind and weather has been coming out of the northwest the last few days.

[WheatCity]

Oh yea...in fact, since we live in Stark County, we have to have a rider on our home owner's insurance for "mine subsidence".

At one time, during the height of the canal era, there were 110 separate mines operating on the banks of the Tusc between Massillon and Canal Fulton.

One area of Massillon is completely riddled underground with criss-crosses of mine shafts. It is loosely bordered by Wellman on the south, Seventh St. on the west, and Wales on the east. I'm not sure how far north the area goes.

In fact, the old ice cream parlor near Longfellow, Jackman's, was originally built as a coal company office.

Actually, in the 1870's, this region produced a certain grade of coal that was very expensive because of its burn properties. It was called Massillon Coal. The old mines around Warmington Road and to the north of town in the 40 corners / newman creek area were owned by Marcus Hanna. In 1876, there was a major coal strike because Hanna's company lowered wages because of a severe economic downturn and thus, lowered demand for coal - especially expensive coal. It was pretty violent. When scabs went to go work at the Warmington mines, the strikers charged the rail carts as the replacement workers were coming off. The general manager of the mine pulled a pistol and said that if one man takes another step, he'd shoot them....
So all the coal miners charged him and nearly beat him to death. The wifes of the Massillon miners were throwing "missles" at the replacement miners.

The violence spread to mines from Akron to New Philidelphia, but Massillon was the worst. Violence occured in the streets, mines around town were being set on fire. It got so bad, that Governor Hayes, who would be elected President later that year, sent the militia to Massillon. For nearly 4 weeks, Massillon was under military occupation until the ringleaders of the violence were arrested.

The trial was in Canton and the defence attorney for the miners was no other than William McKinley. He got all but one of the 16 miners tried lowered sentences or aquitted. His defence was that the men went crazy at the sight of men coming to take the jobs that fed their families and could not control themselves. He became a hero to miners in the 16th Congressional District (comprising of Tusc, Stark, Columbiana, and Mahoning counties - the 2nd largest coal mining district in the country at the time) and they elected him to Congress that November.

Marcus Hanna, owner of the mines, would go on to be McK's campaign manager for his 1896 Presidential campaign. Hanna also gave McK a lucky charm - the scarlet carnation, now our state flower.

[ChronicTiger]

Westside Booms? Thats just CarlE slamming his beer down on the bar at the Diamond.....

:cylon:

[Kamd50]

THANKS for the great history lesson, WheatCity:2thumbsup:

[WheatCity]

THANKS for the great history lesson, WheatCity:2thumbsup:

No problem.
As a side note - McKinley forgot his scarlet carnation the day he was shot in Buffalo.

[The Butler]

No problem.
As a side note - McKinley forgot his scarlet carnation the day he was shot in Buffalo.

I thought the story was that he gave it to a little girl earlier in the day.

[WheatCity]

I thought the story was that he gave it to a little girl earlier in the day.

You might be right - I seem to recall that he forgot it before heading to convention, but I could be wrong.

[chap]

Seriously guys. I wonder what it is and whats going on?
It's good news! The Tigers keep scoring!

[The Butler]

A Dark Event
McKinley wore a carnation when he attended the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo on September 6, 1901. He shook hands with a little girl who timidly asked him a favor. “Could I have something to show my friends? They’ll never believe I really and truly spoke to you.”

McKinley gave her his carnation, his good luck piece. The second person in line after the little girl carried a gun. He assassinated McKinley, the twenty-fifth president.

http://www.geosymbols.org/World/Ohio/Flower/

[WheatCity]

Leo Czolgosz shot him with a bandage wrapped around the gun - If I recall correctly, McKinley apologized when he stuck out his right hand to shake Czolgosz' hand for not noticing that he was injured.

Of the seven presidents who have died in office, 4 have been from Ohio.
Harrison (pneumonia,) Garfield (shot at a train station,) McK (shot at the PanAm,) and Harding (died of a heart attack - or poisoning, depending on the expert.)

Reagan has been the only President elected in a year ending in "0" that survived his entire term:
Harrison - 1840, Lincoln - 1860, Garfield - 1880, McK - 1900, Harding - 1920, Roosevelt - 1940, JFK - 1960

[mommy]

I live right on erie by the cemetary and i have been hearing them also....also for about two weeks....i hear them all the time....i was thinking either the four-wheelers that are down on the tusc were doing something with fireworks, but it does really sound like gun shots....on thursday or friday, i think it was thursday night late, i heard about six or seven real loud booms that sounded like gun shots....IDK......it sounds more like gun shots than fireworks from where i am at......

[caseybaby]

its just my cousin ...and if you go online you can get almost any type of firework that is loud and better then what we had at the car show...my cousin did...:bomb: make sure you guys all have ear plugs for the 4th it will be even worse that day...well night also :bomb:

[Al.]

Last night (Sunday) the booms were constant for about 1/2 hour around 10pm northwest of Massillon. My bet is that there was a fantastic fireworks show at Clays Park. :rockin:

[TigerLily]

I heard that too about that time and when it started I thought -- "Oh, no, there's those "Westside Booms" I read about. My house is probably going to cave in!!"

But, then I realized it was fireworks, so went back to Army Wives.
http://www.freefever.com/animatedgifs/animated/fireworks15.gif

[caseybaby]

MT

you are right those were from jackson...they had theres sunday since they got rain out sat night...but those other ones are my cousin and he lives on the east side that how loud his are :unclesam::bomb:

[MTigers006]

[QUOTE=caseybaby;109357]MT

you are right those were from jackson...they had theres sunday since they got rain out sat night...but those other ones are my cousin and he lives on the east side that how loud his are.
Either that or Seeker is eatting Wendy's Chilli again. LOL :jestera:

Seriously someone told me the mysterious booms are comming from the railroad track. Anyone hear about something yet?