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| The deadliest school massacre in US history received very little attention because it wasn't committed with a gun |
| 2018-02-28 |
| [PowderedWigSociety] When we think of the horrible school massacres that are now an unfortunate part of American history, we recall University of Texas, Columbine, Virginia Tech, Sandy Hook, and now Marjory Stoneman Douglas in Parkland, Florida. As horrific as all of those monstrous slaughters of our innocent youngsters were, the deadliest school mass murder in US history is hardly known, the Bath School massacre in Michigan in 1927, during which not a single bullet was fired. Bath was a rural village of 300 people despite its location ten miles from Lansing, the state capital. The local institute of learning was Bath Consolidated School, built only five years earlier to replace the scattered one-room schools of the surrounding farmland. It had 314 students from around the region, many the sons and daughters of farmers. Some students were bused in, and all took classes with their peers over the course of elementary and high school, according to Smithsonian. May 18 was the last day of classes for students that year, but at 8:45 the north wing of the three-story structure exploded with such force that the boom was heard miles away. "We knew it came from Bath, but we didn’t know what it was or anything, so we jumped in the old car and drove as fast as we could to see what it was," Irene Dunham told the Lansing State Journal. The centenarian is the oldest living survivor. She was 19 at the time, a senior about to finish her last year‐and stayed home that morning due to a sore throat. "There was a pile of children about five or six under the roof and some of them had arms sticking out, some had legs, and some just their heads sticking out. They were unrecognizable because they were covered with dust, plaster and blood," wrote local author Monty J. Ellsworth in his 1927 account, The Bath School Disaster. "It is a miracle that many parents didn’t lose their minds before the task of getting their children out of the ruins was completed. It was between five and six o’clock that evening before the last child was taken out." As community members rushed to help after the explosion, getting rope to lift up the collapsed roof and pull the students and teachers from the rubble, a member of the school board named Andrew Kehoe drove up to the site. Kehoe stepped out of his truck filled with dynamite and shrapnel, aimed his rifle at it, and fired. The ensuing explosion killed the school superintendent, several other bystanders, and Kehoe himself. Continues. |
| Posted by:Anomalous Sources |
| #10 Off the topic, kind of. Fleet Farm this evening has removed all "tactical" rifles from their website. I have the cached before and after if anyone wants to see. |
| Posted by: Michael Stokes 2018-02-28 21:11 |
| #9 Who Were America's Top Mass Shooters in Last 2 Out of 3 Years? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2018-02-28 15:01 |
| #8 Close to a million Rwandan Tutsis were killed, mostly by machete. More than a few were school children. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2018-02-28 14:47 |
| #7 I wonder how the media will spin things if Antifa continues on their trend line and actually begin killing people... |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2018-02-28 14:11 |
| #6 Andrew Kehoe was the 55-year-old school board treasurer and was angered by increased taxes and his defeat in the Spring 1926 election for township clerk. He was thought to have planned his "murderous revenge" after that public defeat. He had a reputation for difficulty on the school board and in personal dealings. (School Dynamiter First Slew Wife". New York Times (via Bauerle FreePages @ RootsWeb.com). May 20, 1927. Retrieved January 15, 2013.) Think Antifa. |
| Posted by: Woodrow 2018-02-28 14:09 |
| #5 Didn't a group of guys kill 3000 people and cause over 5 Billion in damage without firing a shot? ISIS killed almost 10,000 people in Mosul with knives and axes. And I wonder why something isn't done about trucks or opioids? |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2018-02-28 10:18 |
| #4 I believe the point is that niðings (thanks to newc) will always find a way to engage their evil. |
| Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy 2018-02-28 09:05 |
| #3 That was almost 100 years ago. I bet if you search farther back you can find larger atrocities in schools in Europe or asia... Who cares??? Its 2018 and guns are the choice of weapon now. |
| Posted by: Menhadden Lumplump4369 2018-02-28 07:03 |
| #2 There is nothing new under the Sun. Harden your Skoolz, Harden where Children are. No other answer is needed for today, period. |
| Posted by: newc 2018-02-28 01:23 |
| #1 Actually bullets were fired - but the bomb was responsible for the carnage. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2018-02-28 00:29 |