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| Maud Spellman - obit4 |
aude (Hune) Spellman
was a teacher in Forest for many years. She was the daughter of Fred and Mary Hune. Born, 4 Sep 1879, in Jackson Twp., Wyandot Co., she married W.L. Spellman on June 13, 1920. He died in the Cleveland Clinic disaster of 1929.
.L. Spellman
Referenced is the Collingwood School disaster which occurred in Cleveland, Ohio March 4, 1908 killing 175 children.
Investigation found that the doors in the school opened inward causing jams at the doorways. Legislation was enacted (and in most places in the U.S.) to require that all door in public school places open outward.
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| W.L. Spellman - obit1 |
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Poison gas killed approximately 150 people in a freak accident when an overheated steam pipe caused an explosion of the stored X-ray film in the basement of the Cleveland Clinic. The ensuing fire create a poison gas which destroyed red corpuscles causing deaths like the gas attacks of World War I. In those attacks victims "... became "walking gas cases" who withstood the inroads of the poison for a few days and then fell over dead." 3
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| Cleveland Clinic Disaster2 |
Other Photographs from the Cleveland Clinic Disaster.
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| Office Debris |
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| Doctors |
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| Clinic Scene |
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| Firemen & Police |
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| Bodies |
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| Dr. Brile |
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| Carrying Victims |
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1The Mansfield News (Mansfield, OH) 6 Mar 1908.
2Lima News (Lima, OH) 16 May 1929, p.1.
3ibid.
4Unknown (unknown, OH) c1936.