Crimes & Accidents

Crimes

• Murder of James Towel

• Murder & Suicide of Mr & Mrs Samuel Coad of Murphysboro

• Murder of Edward Jones in 1872

• Murder of Mrs Monroe Hampton in 1935

Accidents

• Nov 1961 Car hit by a train--4 killed

• Raymond Hagler of Carbondale--kills self

• Bennie Lufkin hit by a train

• Perry Wilson of Gorham--killed by train

• Robert Wright of Carbondale--drown

Fires:

• 1886 businesses--Watson's blacksmith & Raynor's Woolen factory