100 years ago today : twelve die in hotel fire
By AmberLynn
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
United States
January 31, 2021 9:30am CST
This was taken from the South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, January 31, 1921, Morning Edition Found on Chroniclingamerica.loc.gov
South Bend, Indiana is where Pete Buttigieg the new Secretary of Transportation is from.
Anyway...
Twelve Die in Hotel Fire
Four Injured when flames gut building
There's a part of this article that talks about a woman identifying her husband's body. A woman was found burned to death alongside him. Another woman came forward to identify her body but would not give her(the identifiers) name.
Sad.. Just.. Sad. Makes me wonder if the wife knew about the affair?
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
31 Jan 21
The fire brigades were ill equipped too. They did what they could with what they had, but what they had was not enough.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
31 Jan 21
@CarolDM To be the wife of one of the fire fighters. They must have feared for their loved ones safety every day.
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@CarolDM (203396)
• Nashville, Tennessee
31 Jan 21
@ScribbledAdNauseum Very sad situation.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
31 Jan 21
@Tina30219 Then again, maybe she knew about it. I feel like around that time women were just expected to live with their husband's infidelity.
@Tina30219 (82978)
• Onaway, Michigan
31 Jan 21
@ScribbledAdNauseum Right and that is sad
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
1 Feb 21
Yes, very sad. I can't imagine the anger and grief she felt.
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@RebeccasFarm (91297)
• United States
31 Jan 21
Yes the affair would have been a shock indeed so she was probably happy then he burned.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
31 Jan 21
It took me a second to connect the dots to be honest. I knew it was a hotel but my brain did not connect the "other woman" to be a mistress.
I was watching a video a few months back and this woman went over the history of a hotel in South Dakota (I think). It had a bit of an affair scandal history too.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
1 Feb 21
I can't begin to imagine to anger and grief the woman felt.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
1 Feb 21
@LindaOHio I am looking at the paper again and the guy on the top left almost looks like JFK
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@LindaOHio (222727)
• United States
1 Feb 21
@ScribbledAdNauseum That's for sure.
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