Accidents, Disasters, and Tragedies

Accidents, Disasters and Tragedies

Draper and Dutcher Fires   

Burned in Boston – Gov. Draper’s Mansion – 1909

Flu epidemic – 1918   

Ice storm – 1921   

Sister Saves Brother from Fire – 1931

Tragic Death – Darwin Draper – 1933   

Red Barn Fire – 1937   

Flood and Hurricane in Milford – 1938

Hurricane in Mendon – 1938   

Floods, 1927 and 1938      

Murder at the Red Rooster – 1950

Flood in Spindleville, 1955   

Flood at the Draper plant in 1955 – Outside   

Flood at the Draper plant in 1955 –Inside  

Flood at Hopedale Pond in 1955 

The 1955 Flood in Mendon   

Mill River Flood Control Project – Woonsocket   

Rosenfeld Sand & Gravel Co. Accidents   

Fred FitzGerald and the Crash of the Lockheed Electra – 1960

Union Evangelical Church Fire – 1962   

Escape from Hopedale Pond – 1965

 A Tragic Day at Esty Farm – 1965

Flood, Fire, and False Alarms   

Draper Family Murder-Suicide – 1969

 Cyr brothers drown in Milford – 1970   

 Five Die at Hopedale Airport Plane Crash –1972

Tragic Life of Gorge Draper Osgood   – 1908 – 1972

 Robbery and Murder at Lowell’s Dairy – 1974

 The Blizzard of ’78   

 Lowell’s Dairy Fire, Mendon –  2004

 Flood in Spindleville, 2008 – video   

 Flood, 2010 – YouTube

 Hopedale Country Club Fire – 2010

 Flood in August 2012   

The Winter of 2015   

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