Tag: Indiana
Indiana Man Kills One Brother, Wounds Another, Then Refuses to Speak
A 70-year-old Indiana man sat silently in a jail cell in April 1928 after a street shooting left one man dead and his brother critically…
Indiana Coal Miners Went on Strike to Protect the Mine Mules
In 1902, a group of Indiana coal miners walked off the job for an unusual reason: the mules were not being treated properly. The animals…
Teen Who Couldn’t Swim Drowned as 50 Bathers Looked On
Francis Laycock could not swim. That did not stop his companions from repeatedly throwing the 17-year-old into a gravel pit near Alexandria, Indiana, in the…
Indiana Man Fought Off Swarms of Rats for 12 Hours as Floodwaters Rose
George Memmert took shelter in an old Indiana barn as floodwaters rose around him. Before long, the water had climbed so high that he was…
Toddler Survived Six Days in Freezing Home With Two Murder Victims
For six days, 3-year-old Billy Huffstickle remained trapped inside a freezing Indiana farmhouse with the bodies of his murdered aunt and uncle. Weak from hunger,…
Typhoid Scare Forced Richmond Dairies to Sterilize Milk Bottles
A typhoid fever outbreak in Richmond, Indiana, turned public attention toward an everyday household item: the reusable milk bottle. In October 1913, health officials linked…
Indiana Hotel Exploded While 30 Guests Slept Inside
Thirty guests were asleep inside the Seitz Hotel near Marion, Indiana, when a powerful gas explosion tore through the two-story brick building. The outer walls…
Quick-Thinking Engineer Prevents Passenger Train Disaster
For a few terrifying moments on the Lake Shore tracks, it looked as if a passenger train was about to plunge into disaster. The westbound…
Mother Watches Baby Die in Her Arms During Heat Wave
The summer heat had already done its damage by the time Susan Dodi reached the doctor’s office with her baby in her arms. Her six-month-old…
Indiana Wife Hit With Hammer and Buried in Cornfield
In the autumn of 1913, a grim discovery in an Indiana cornfield led authorities to a husband who had suddenly vanished with his two young…
