She was 19 at the time, a senior about to finish her last year-and stayed home that morning due to a sore throat. The centenarian is the oldest living survivor.
“We knew it came from Bath, but we didn’t know what it was or anything, so we jumped in the old car and drove as fast as we could to see what it was,” Irene Dunham told the Lansing State Journal.
May 18 was the last day of classes for students that year, but at 8:45 the north wing of the three-story structure exploded with such force that the boom was heard miles away. Some students were bused in, and all took classes with their peers over the course of elementary and high school. It had 314 students from around the region, many the sons and daughters of farmers. The local institute of learning was Bath Consolidated School, built only five years earlier to replace the scattered one-room schools of the surrounding farmland. In 1927, Bath was a rural village of 300 people despite its location ten miles from Lansing, the state capital. But one name rarely gets mentioned among the others, the oldest and deadliest school massacre in U.S. Talk about any single one, and the others always hover on the periphery. America’s terrible history of school shootings is a list whose members can’t be named alone.
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