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Henry Ransom had called for the bodies to be left in the open to spread fear across the town. [307] Longoria, Antonio: 49 10 Mexican-Americans: Latino: Olmito: Cameron: Texas: October 19, 1915: Train wrecking and murder: After a train wrecking that killed 3 people, the Americans began to hang or shoot Mexicans who they thought were involved in ...
The fire was tended until the bodies were completely consumed. Pieces of the chain and the burned stump, and even a few pieces of bone found in the ashes, were taken as souvenirs. Photos of Reed and Cato chained to the stump, of the burning bodies, and of the charred stump that remained after the fire, were also offered for sale. [16]
The PS General Slocum [note 1] was an American sidewheel passenger steamboat built in Brooklyn, New York, in 1891. During her service history, she was involved in a number of mishaps, including multiple groundings and collisions. On June 15, 1904, General Slocum caught fire and sank in the East River of New York City. [1]
Ion Perdicaris, June 1904, Tacoma Times The Perdicaris affair, also known as the Perdicaris incident, refers to the kidnapping of Greek-American Ion Hanford Perdicaris (1840–1925) [1] and his stepson, Cromwell Varley, a British subject, by Ahmed al-Raisuni and his bandits on 18 May 1904 in Tangier, Morocco.
On 8 March 1904, a day after the lynching, a mob of more than 1,000 people gathered at the rail yards. An attack on the "Levee" was planned. The Levee was an African American section of town filled with saloons. The mob gathered up flammable items and separated into three groups. Each group was responsible for burning down a different saloon.
Weerdinge Men The remains of the Weerdinge Men shortly after discovery in 1904 prepared for air drying (photographer Geert Jannes Landweer []). The Weerdinge Men is the name given to two bog bodies found in 1904 in Weerdinge, Drenthe, in the southern part of Bourtange moor, in the Netherlands.
A mass grave discovered last December in a suburb of Guadalajara with dozens of bags of dismembered body parts contained the remains of 24 people, Mexican authorities said Sunday.. Six of them ...
Fats Waller, African American jazz pianist and entertainer (died 1943) [45] June 2 – Johnny Weissmuller, swimmer and actor (Tarzan) (died 1984) [46] June 3 – Charles R. Drew, African American physician, pioneer in blood transfusion (died 1950) [47] June 24 – Phil Harris, bandleader and comic actor (died 1995)"Benny Show's Phil Harris Dies ...