MI - Bath School Murders, Bath Township, Michigan 1927

[Richard]

Andrew Kehoe

In perhaps the deadliest massacres to have been committed by one person in Michigan, Kehoe killed 44 people. He bombed a school in Bath Township, before he killed himself. This horrific act remains the deadliest incident to occur on a U.S. school campus.

The Bath School disaster, sometimes known as the Bath School massacre, was a series of violent attacks perpetrated by Andrew Kehoe on May 18, 1927, in Bath Township, Michigan, which killed 38 elementary schoolchildren and six adults and injured at least 58 other people. Kehoe killed his wife and firebombed his farm, then detonated an explosion in the Bath Consolidated School before committing suicide by detonating a final device in his truck.

Date: May 18, 1927
Fatalities: 45
Location: Bath Township, Michigan, U.S.
Target: Bath Consolidated School, house, farm, and wife

 

[Trident]

I read about this years ago, horrible. Them old guys didn't do things half way, sadly.

 

[glamourkitty1922]

Here is a very good article on the massacre as it's known in Michigan. 22 things you may not have known about the 1927 Bath school massacre

 

[Reasonable & Just]

That self-pitying psycho. It was interesting to read that the KKK blamed this on Catholicism.

 

[ColyH]

As of two years ago there was still at least one survivor from the Bath School Disaster.
90 years later: Remembering deadly Bath school disaster

 

[imstilla.grandma]

The tragic event took place in 1927 in Bath, Michigan. The bombing took the lives of 58 people in and around Bath School. 38 of the people who lost their lives were children. The local school board treasurer executed this senseless and methodical mass killing according to The Crazy Tourist,

Andrew Kehoe, a farmer and the school board treasurer, in a gruesome mental state, decided to undertake a suicidal mission by first murdering his wife, then blowing up his house, and gradually blowing up the school.

The Crazy Tourist also points out that 500 pounds of additional explosives were later found on school grounds that thankfully did not detonate. This tragedy could have been even worse. That's hard to imagine.

Michigan School Bombing Among Largest Mass Murder in U.S. History

The largest U.S. Death Toll in a School tragedy was the Bath School Massacre and it was heartbreaking.

wkfr.com