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Alliance, OH Boys Drown In Creek, Aug 1928

THREE BOYS DROWNED IN CREEK WHILE SWIMMING.

Alliance, O., Aug. 20. -- Three boys were drowned together in a creek near here yesterday while they were swimming.
They were:  read more »

Bellefontaine, OH Children's Home Fire, May 1907

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FIRE ATTACKS CHILDREN'S HOME.

Bellefontaine, O., May 15. -- The Logan County Children's Home was totally destroyed by fire. All of the 42 children were saved.  read more »

Upper Sandusky, OH Drowning, May 1898

THREE MEN DROWNED.

Lose Their Lives While Swimming in a Creek in the Vicinity of Upper Sandusky.

Special to the Plain Dealer.  read more »

Bucyrus, OH Lightning Strike, Aug 1905

Strange Freak of Lightning.  read more »

Cleveland, OH Power Plant Cave In, Mar 1902

SEVEN KILLED

BURIED ALIVE UNDER A GREAT BANK OF CLAY.  read more »

Alliance, OH Auto Accident, Oct 1952

Alliance Boy Injured When Struck by Auto  read more »

Mansfield, OH Natural Gas Explosion, Oct 1911

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A NATURAL GAS EXPLOSION AND FIRE WRECK THE OLD WILER HOUSE BUILDING.

FOURTEEN WOMEN IN RISCH & McCOY MILLINERY STORE WHEN TERRIFIC CONCUSSION CAME THAT DISMANTLED STORE AND STARTED FIRE.  read more »

Cambridge, OH (near) Auto And Tractor Trailer Collision, May 1960

6 DIE IN ROUTE 40 CRASH.

GUERNSEY COUNTY COLLISION IS WORST IN U.S.  read more »

Cleveland, OH Boiler Explosion, Dec 1886

FATAL BOILER EXPLOSION.  read more »

Cleveland, OH Runaway Horse Tramples Children Watching Parade, Sept 1904

One Dead And Seven Injured

Runaway Horse Clashed Into Group of Children Awaiting a Parade.

Twelve-Year-Old Lad Fell Beneath Animal and Died in Few Minutes.

The Dead.  read more »

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