Category: U.S. Historical News
4-Year-Old Boy Hopped a Freight Train and Rode Into North Dakota
When a four-year-old boy vanished from his home in Lemmon, South Dakota, back in 1914, his widowed mother searched for him until nightfall. What she…
Ironwood Man “Skinned Alive” By Lightning Bolt
When Tony Kmieck failed to return from a Saturday night fishing trip in 1925, his companions began searching the shores of Iron Lake. They found…
Starkweather Farmhand Killed by Lightning While Standing in Barn Doorway
When a violent summer storm swept across the countryside near Starkweather, North Dakota, in 1905, Burt Martin was asleep in an upstairs room of a…
20 Ohio Miners Found Dead Behind Makeshift Wall in Gas-Filled Mine
The handwritten message found deep inside the smoke-blackened mine offered rescuers one last reason to hope: “Twenty men are in this room.” For days back…
7 Halloween Merrymakers Killed When Train Smashed Into Truck in New Jersey
Halloween night should have ended with laughter, music, and masqueraders returning home with stories to tell. Instead, for a truckload of Philadelphians traveling through southern…
Post Office Inspector Drowned in Lake Ontario Undertow
In July 1909, Dwight W. Dewey, a United States Post Office Inspector from New York City, drowned while swimming in Lake Ontario. Dewey had been…
Massive Flywheel Burst Killed Engineer at Chicago Steel Plant
In 1915, five hundred men were at work inside the Illinois Steel Plant in South Chicago when a massive flywheel came apart. The wheel, thirty…
Homestead Electric Plant Disaster Killed 27-Year-Old Engineer
In 1895, the electric light plant in Homestead, Pennsylvania, had only just returned to service when disaster struck. After three weeks of repairs, the plant…
1903 Execution at Sing Sing Took Five Electric Shocks
Antonio Triola was led into the death room at Sing Sing prison smiling. It was 1903, and he had been sentenced to die in the…
Five Manhattan Fishermen Escape Death After Launch Sinks Offshore
On what should have been an ordinary day of fishing, five Manhattan men suddenly found themselves fighting for their lives in the waters off New…
