mystmidwestIt’s big, it’s sad, and it’s real screwed up. This week Danielle tells the story of the 1927 historic Bath Massacre, America’s first and deadliest school bombing, which resulted in the deaths of 44 individuals, and injured approximately 58 more.
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The Victims of the Bath Massacre 
Andrew & Nellie Kehoe 
Kehoe House 
Kehoe House after the 
The Aftermath at Bath Consolidated Schools 
The Aftermath at Bath Consolidated Schools 
The Aftermath at Bath Consolidated Schools 
The Remains of Kehoe’s Truck 
Five hundred and four pounds of unexploded pyrotol that was taken out of the basement of the unwrecked portion of the school by two state troopers. This dynamite was divided up into eight different charges in different sections of the basement. When investigators poured through the evidence after the bombing, they found another big stack of explosives under the south wing of the building and realized Kehoe intended to blow up the entire school, but his alarm clock detonator malfunctioned. 
The location where they found Nellie’s body. 
Beatrice Gibbs 
Ellsworth Book 
The Cupola today in James Couzens Memorial Park
Resources: Bath Massacre: America’s First School Bombing by Arnie Bernstein, MLive.com, The Bath School Disaster by Monty J. Ellsworth
