Tag: Indiana
22 Charred Bodies Taken From Passenger Train
The people of Sandford, Indiana, felt the blast before they understood what had happened. One moment, an accommodation passenger train was slowing along the Big…
Coal Flies as Indiana Man Tries to Steal Engine
On a summer afternoon in Aurora, Indiana, while the engineer and fireman stepped away from their switch engine to eat dinner, 23-year-old Louis R. Henry…
Hoosier Man Burned by X-Ray May Lose His Leg
When X-rays were first announced to the world in late 1895, they seemed almost miraculous. For the first time, doctors and experimenters could look beneath…
Lawrenceburg Man Uncouples Express Train to Reach His Sweetheart
Some love stories involve stolen glances, secret letters, or moonlit promises. This one involved an express train, a coupling pin, and a very bad decision….
Baby Abandoned in Man’s Car, Taken to Hospital
In today’s news, we read that babies are being abandoned in the state of Texas at an alarming rate. The same thing happened 100 years…
Skeletal Remains of Child Found in Building Foundation
In 1911, the remains of a child were found in a wooden box buried in the foundation of a building. An old penny from 1817…
Woman sleepwalks out into below zero temperatures, freezes to death
In the winter of 1924, Indianapolis and surrounding areas was experiencing below freezing temperatures. A woman, 45, got out of bed and left her house…
Woman murders family with shotgun, worried about neighbors hearing the blast
Widow and mother grabbed the family shotgun and killed her mother, father, brother, and young daughter. She was deemed insane. Woman Slew 4; Goes to…
Indiana man murders woman, makes jest, and gets lynched
Oliver Canfield pretended to lean over and kiss his sweetheart when he instead shot her. After he was arrested, he requested to see her as…
Something picks up barn and sets it down in different field
A “freak cyclone” in Indiana caused a barn to be picked up and safely set down in another field as man and horses stood nearby….
