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3 Dead After Wedding Party’s Car Falls Onto Railroad Tracks
What began as a hopeful trip to be married ended in tragedy for a young Georgia couple and their companions in November 1909. James Shepard…
Man Risks His Life on Melting Ice to Save 10-Year-Old Boy
A ten-year-old boy’s plunge through the ice of the Saugus River in Lynn, Massachusetts, set off a desperate rescue in February 1920, with one man…
Homemade Moonshine Still Turns Deadly After Flame Goes Out
A homemade moonshine operation apparently turned deadly in New York in 1920 when a man was found dead in his lodgings beside an improvised still….
3 Nearly Suffocate After Illinois Bank Robbers Lock Them Inside Vault
A bank robbery in the small town of Alpha, Illinois, nearly turned deadly in June 1930 when two bandits escaped with thousands of dollars and…
Woman Found Nearly Unconscious After Horrific Axe Accident in Tennessee
A routine chore nearly turned deadly for a young Tennessee woman in December 1915 when a single swing of an axe left her with a…
Virginia College Destroyed by Fire as 150 Students Escape in Nightclothes
Early one morning in November 1900, around 150 young women at Virginia College near Roanoke awoke to a frightening discovery. Smoke had already filled the…
Mystery Thief Raids Wilmington Porches for Doormats and Potted Plants
Most thieves go after money, jewelry, or anything else that can be quickly carried away and sold. But in Wilmington, Delaware, during the fall of…
71-Year-Old Iowa Woman Pushed the U.S. Mail by Wheelbarrow 4 Times a Day
For more than two decades, Lucinda Annie Robertson carried the United States mail through Pleasantville, Iowa, in one of the simplest ways imaginable: with a…
Washington Doctor Found Dead in Barn With Chloroform Beside His Body
For years, Dr. J.D. Scanlon had practiced medicine in Vancouver, Washington, and understood the dangers of the drugs commonly used by physicians of his era….
Los Angeles Bootlegger Found Beaten and Shot During 1928 “Rum War”
By the summer of 1928, Prohibition had created a vast illegal market for alcohol, and in Los Angeles, competition over the liquor trade could turn…
