by Alliance Historical Society | Apr 18, 2023 | Alliance Review, Cemetery
Death and Discovery | Blume’s undertaking rooms | Funeral Rites | Laid to Rest On Tuesday evening, May 2, 1916, at 8:30 p.m., Mrs. J. T. Conley and Mrs. H. Richards discovered the lifeless body of a male child in the woman’s toilet room of the Pennsylvania...
by Alliance Historical Society | Dec 3, 2022 | Events, Historic facts
Background | What Happened | After the Crash | The Victims | Who Was to Blame Alliance’s deadliest train accident occurred on December 8, 1856, at the crossing. Eight people were killed and many others were severely injured, when two railroad trains collided....
by Alliance Historical Society | Sep 11, 2021 | Events, Historic facts, Obituaries
At 4 o’clock in the afternoon of February 1, 1884, Alliance’s worst disaster occurred. Seven people lost their lives and at least 15 others were seriously injured as the fumes from a gasoline spill inside the Orr Block ignited, causing the three-story building...
by Alliance Historical Society | Sep 1, 2019 | Events
What Happened to the Other Guests?As we conclude our story of the Great Olive Poisoning of 1919, we return once again to the retelling of the story by William H. Morgan, who later became the President of Morgan Engineering in Alliance, Ohio. He wrote this history of...
by Alliance Historical Society | Aug 31, 2019 | Events
Aftermath for the Morgan Family We return to the final portions of the story as told by William H. Morgan, son of Col. Morgan, who was just 15 years old at the time of the dinner party. Aftermath. Mother [Annette Sharer Morgan] later admitted that she was very ill the...
