Newspaper Clipping of the Day

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In case you think you're having a bad day, I present this item from the "Topeka Daily Capital," July 17, 1891:

Pittsburg, Pa., July 16. A series of accidents happened at Rankin Station yesterday and last night, whereby five persons living in the same building were either killed or fatally wounded. 

Yesterday morning David Bell, aged 20 years, a boarder at the house of Charles McGrattin, left his work. He did not return last night to his supper, and about 7 o'clock his naked body was found floating in the river. He had been drinking hard of late and it is not known whether he was accidentally drowned while swimming or committed suicide. 

Two hours later a lamp exploded in McGrattin's dwelling and two of his children, Robert and Charles, aged 7 and 10 years, who were asleep, were burned to death. 

This morning about daylight, Harry Rouse and Peter Knee, who boarded with McGrattin, while searching in the ruins of the house which burned from the lamp explosion, for some of their effects, were buried under a falling chimney. Rouse was killed and Knee fatally injured. 

Dr. Kope, who was called to dress the wounds of Peter Knee, was driving home this morning, when his horse ran away and wrecked the vehicle. The doctor was thrown out and so badly injured that he may die. 

Peter Knee died about 10 o'clock this morning, making five deaths so far. The accidents have created intense excitement in the vicinity and a large crowd surrounds the ruins.

I would have advised those gawkers to stay well away from the scene.  That land was obviously cursed.