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Category Archives: Bizarre Deaths
Baltimore Balloon Aeronaut’s Deadly Final Performance (1905)
By George Gipe (The Baltimore Sun, 10/14/1973) An Afternoon’s Diversion in the Good Old Days John August, balloon acrobat, gives a memorable final performance Sunday, September 9, 1905: A half mile above the row houses of East Baltimore, 25-year-old John … Continue reading
Posted in 1900s, Ballooning, Baltimorons, Bizarre Deaths, Deaths, Highlandtown, Neighborhoods, Stunts, Uncategorized
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Husband, Wife and Unborn Child Killed by Bags of Batshit, 1854
Horrible Tragedy in Baltimore (The New York Times, August 23, 1854) On. Saturday last, at dinner time, at Fells Point, an industrious German, who had been engaged in unloading a ship, was, with his wife, seated upon a bag of … Continue reading
Posted in 1850s, Baltimore Babylon, Bizarre Deaths, Deaths, Fells Point
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