Tag: Chicago
Chicago firemen’s heroic rescue effort turns eerie as bodies saved were dissecting room subjects
The title says it all. Firemen went into a burning building and rescued subjects in the dissection room. This happened in Chicago, 1902. Ghastly Joke…
John Grady Held Under $10,000 Bond on Murder Charge
Chicago chef, John Grady, was held for murder after the bloody clothes belonging to his wife were found stashed under the porch of their home…
1924 immigrant quota law scored as inhumane
Anti-immigration policies have always plagued U.S. politics, as we see below in the article published 100 years ago in 1924. What I find particularly interesting…
Man steals alligator from outside Chicago restaurant
In 1894, Chicago, a drunk man decided to steal a live alligator being displayed outside of a restaurant. What happened next was utter chaos as…
Woman holds burglar hostage with gun after finding him under bed
After a day of shopping with her 13-year-old daughter back in 1894, Mrs. Brown returned home only to hear strange noises coming from the second…
Horrific description of Chicago slaughterhouses in 1913
Below is a brutal and gruesome description of what went on inside the Chicago slaughterhouses in the early 1900s. It’s little wonder that there were…
Headless corpse found in sewer’s catch basin
A bit ago I did a search on bodies found in the sewers. Here is one of my finds of a headless corpse wearing bicycle…
Man dies after falling into vat of hot grease
Let’s add this one to the list of “I don’t wanna die like that.” Man falls into vat of hot grease and dies. Dies in…
Two robbers order man to stick out his tongue
Instead of robbers telling victims to “stick up your hands,” these Chicago robbers had their victims stick out their tongues. A strange account from 1913:…
SS Eastland Disaster of 1915
On the morning of July 24, 1915, passengers boarded the SS Eastland. They were the families and employees of the Western Electric Company’s Hawthorne Works,…
