Deadly Dallas: A History of Unfortunate Incidents and Grisly Fatalities

Spring of 1904. An inexperienced automobile driver jumps the curb and drives into the lobby of the St. George Hotel. The mayor orders a roundup of unlicensed dogs due to a citywide outbreak of rabies. An elevator crushes the head of a young man as he retrieves a half dollar he had dropped down the shaft. Embers from a wood-burning stove transform a sleeping house into a funeral pyre. A ten-year-old boy in City Park has a spike driven into his temple by a playmate with a fence picket. All this in just a few days. Rusty Williams catalogues the heartbreaking and bizarre forms in which death stalked Dallas at the turn of the twentieth century.

Author: Rusty Williams
Publisher: History Press
Published: 06/28/2021
Pages: 144
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.71lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.98w x 0.47d
ISBN13: 9781467148498
ISBN10: 1467148490
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States | State & Local | Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
- History | United States | 20th Century
- True Crime | Murder | General