{"id":14058,"date":"2025-04-19T20:32:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-20T01:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=14058"},"modified":"2025-04-19T20:32:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T01:32:08","slug":"mfdj-04-19-25-a-ghastly-scene-at-new-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=14058","title":{"rendered":"MFDJ 04\/19\/25: A Ghastly Scene at New London"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s Zombie-like Yet Truly Morbid Fact!<\/h3>\n

The\u00a0New London School explosion\u00a0occurred on March 18, 1937, when a\u00a0natural gas leak\u00a0caused an\u00a0explosion\u00a0and destroyed the London School in\u00a0New London,\u00a0Texas, United States.\u00a0The disaster killed more than 300 students and teachers. As of 2021, the event is the third-deadliest disaster in the history of Texas, after the\u00a01900 Galveston hurricane\u00a0and the 1947\u00a0Texas City disaster.\u00a0 The following is an account of the aftermath of the disaster.<\/p>\n

Preston Crim saw a man emerge from the ruins carrying a schoolboy. “Evidently he was one of the first on the scene and he found his son the first thing,” Crim said. “I could see [the son’s] feet dangling\u2014turned different directions like his legs were crushed. His abdomen was opened up and his intestines were hanging and he was still alive, begging his daddy to kill him. His daddy was just walking like a zombie in a trance.”<\/p>\n

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Culled from:\u00a0Gone at 3:17<\/a><\/p>\n

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Morbid Portrait Du Jour!<\/h3>\n

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Philadelphia Medical Student<\/strong>
\n1\/6 Plate Ambrotype, circa 1858<\/p>\n

Classic photographic background used in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n

Culled from: Stiffs, Skulls & Skeletons<\/a><\/p>\n

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Garretdom!<\/h3>\n

TWO BROTHERS DROWNED.<\/strong><\/p>\n

And Their Mother, Who Saw Them Go Down, Becomes a Raving Maniac.<\/strong><\/p>\n

LITTLE ROCK, Sept. 15.\u2014A most sad case of drowning occurred in this county, near the residence of Joseph Morse, yesterday afternoon. The twelve-year-old son of Mr. Morse was bathing in a pond near the house at the time, when he was suddenly taken with cramps, and called to his brother Henry, who was standing upon the bank , to save him. Henry sprang into the water to aid his brother, but the latter’s weight in addition to that of his own clothing proved too great, and they both sank never to rise again. Mrs. Morse had run from the house when the first warning was given, and witnessed the death of her two sons. She fainted at the sight, and when restored to consciousness it was found that she had lost her reason, and had become a raving maniac.<\/p>\n

Culled from the collection of The Comtesse DeSpair
\n1886 Morbid Scrapbook<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today’s Zombie-like Yet Truly Morbid Fact! The\u00a0New London School explosion\u00a0occurred on March 18, 1937, when a\u00a0natural gas leak\u00a0caused an\u00a0explosion\u00a0and destroyed the London School in\u00a0New London,\u00a0Texas, United States.\u00a0The disaster killed more than 300 students and teachers. As of 2021, the event is the third-deadliest disaster in the history of Texas, after the\u00a01900 Galveston hurricane\u00a0and the 1947\u00a0Texas […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facts","category-garretdom"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14062,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14058\/revisions\/14062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}