Bibliograph

DEADLY DALLAS, a history of unfortunate incidents and grisly fatalities

Type

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DEADLY DALLAS, a history of unfortunate incidents and grisly fatalities

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

DEADLY DALLAS

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Sub title

a history of unfortunate incidents and grisly fatalities

Summary

Spring of 1904. An inexperienced automobile driver jumps the curb and drives into the lobby of the St. George Hotel. The mayor orders a roundup of unlicensed dogs due to a citywide outbreak of rabies. An elevator crushes the head of a young man as he retrieves a half dollar he had dropped down the shaft. Embers from a wood-burning stove transform a sleeping house into a funeral pyre. A ten-year-old boy in City Park has a spike driven into his temple by a playmate with a fence picket. All this in just a few days. Rusty Williams catalogues the heartbreaking and bizarre forms in which death stalked Dallas at the turn of the twentieth century

Target audience

adult

Classification