Tag: New York City
A Train, an Elevator, and a Bridge – 3 Gruesome Reports from the Past
Because these “bad news” collections are so popular, I spent the day collecting a few gruesome reports from the newspaper archives just for you. Lakeshore…
A Look Inside the New York Morgue and Potter’s Field 1889
The article below, originally published in 1889, gives us insight into New York City’s morgue, the dead house. The article starts off slow, but gets…
A Skeleton Factory in the Late 1800s London
Did doctors use real skeletons long ago and how did they get those human skeletons? It turns out that the wired skeletons that hung from…
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
Also known as the Washington Place Fire, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire claimed the lives of 146 workers. It was Saturday March 25, 1911. At…
The Slocum Disaster of 1904
The General Slocum was a side wheel passenger steamboat with a hull built out of white oak and yellow pine. On June 15, 1904, over…
Windsor Hotel Fire of 1899
The Windsor Hotel was built in Manhattan, New York in 1873. It was a luxury hotel for the rich and elite who preferred to lived…
Old Photos of Coney Island – Early 1900s
America’s Greatest Playground In 1907, Coney Island was called America’s Greatest Playground. A Sunday Afternoon A Sunday afternoon in the new bowery at Coney Island,…
The Savage Murder of Ruth Wheeler
Ruth Wheeler grew up in poverty, but that did not stop her from following her dream of becoming a stenographer. At age 15 in 1910,…
8 Heinous Crimes Committed By Children
They were called fiendish youths in the 1800 and 1900s, but they were simply children who sadistically hurt and sometimes murdered other people, both children…
6 Old Cases of Decomposed Bodies
Finding decomposed bodies was a regular occurrence in the past. In fact, if you would do a search on “decomposed body” in the newspaper archives,…
