Crimes & Accidents

Crimes

• Murder of Mr. Reed about 1802

• Murder of James Towel

• Murder & Suicide of Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Coad of Murphysboro

• Murder of Edward Jones in 1872

• Murder of Mrs. Monroe Hampton in 1935

• Kidnapped Negro in 1860

Accidents

• Nov 1961 Car hit by a train--4 killed

• David Fisher of Makanda--attempted suicide

• Raymond Hagler of Carbondale--kills self

• Bennie Lufkin hit by a train

• Perry Wilson of Gorham--killed by train

• Robert Wright of Carbondale--drowning

Fires:

• 1886 businesses--Watson's blacksmith & Raynor's Woolen factory

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