Accidents, Disasters, and Tragedies

Accidents, Disasters and Tragedies

Flu epidemic, 1918   

Red Barn Fire, 1937   

Flood and Hurricane in Milford, 1938   

Hurricane in Mendon, 1938   

Murder at the Red Rooster – 1950

Floods, 1927 and 1938      

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

 A Tragic Day at Esty Farm – 1965

 Cyr brothers drown in Milford – 1970   

 Hopedale Airport Plane Crash –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   

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