Madison Tragedies

Tragedies that happened in the Madison area.

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• 2020+
  • 2020
          Date - Name -
    
• 2010s
  • 2019
          Aug 8 - Man with 7 OWI convictions
  • 2012
          Date - Car Hits Family Having Picnic, Kills 7yo Boy
          Date - Four Young People Die in Fitchburg Crash
  • 2011
          Date - Crash kills three in Cottage Grove
          Date - McArthur kids
  • 2010
          Date - Three Young People killed in a Crash by Drunk Driver
    
• 2000s
  • 2009
          Tyrone Adair Murders Four
          Two Girls Die When Boys Crash Stolen Car
  • 2008
          Three Die in Med Flight Crash
          Three UW Students Die in Car Crash
          Father Kills Mentally Handicapped Son, Then Himself
  • 2007
          Three People Electrocuted Outside Metro Bus
          Four Die in Trailer from CO Poisoning
  • 2005
          Two Boaters Vanish on Mendota, One is Never Found
  • 2004
          Hanson-Thomas Car Crash Man reaching for cigarettes rear ends - 1 kid, 1 adult
          Woman's Suicide Causes Two Others to Die
          Quadriplegic Man Drowns Strapped to His Wheelchair - Man
  • 2003
          Verona shooting - 3 men
          Gentry - 2 teens
  • 2002
          Exposure to Algae Kills Teen - teen
• 1990s
  • 1999
          Shaina Davenport Death
          Olsen Family Car Crash - 7 & 9yo kids
          East Side Fire Kills Mother, Two Children - 2 kids 1 woman
          State owned plane (Oakdale)
  • 1994
          North Side Apartment Fire Kills Two 5 Year Old Boys - 2 kids
  • 1991
          East High Girls Run Over by Epileptic Driver - 2 teens
  • 1990
          Fire Kills Five Children
• 1980s
  • 1989
          Aaroen fire - 2 kids
          Car Crash Illinois - 4 Men
  • 1988
          Middleton car crash - 1 teen 2 women, all Sisters
          Four West High Students Die In Firey Crash
  • 1985
          1985-05-24 four teens car accident
  • 1983
          Ambulance Keys Stolen on Halloween, Man Dies
  • 1980
          Fire, Koshel/Kasper - 2 teens
          Car-Bikes from Illinois - 2 teens
• 1970s
  • 1979
          Three Young McFarland Children Drown in Construction Ditch
          Two UW Football Players Die in Off Season
          Two Teens Found Dead in Car After 6 Week Search
          4 Die in Crash - Hwy 113 & Cuba Valley Rd.
    
  • 1977
          - Family of Four Die in Crash -
  • 1975
          - 4 Die in Waubesa Boat Accident -
  • 1974
          Windsor car crash
          Lewis Double Suicide
  • 1973
          Allen Hall Fire Kills Three
  • 1971
          Five Young Girls Die in Westport Fire
          6 Dead in Two Car Accident
  • 1970
          Fire Kills Two Children on East Side
• 1960s
  • 1967
          Otis Redding Plane Crash
          Bodies of Nine Girls Arrive at Truax Field
          Two Young Girls Killed by Car
  • 1966
          Three-Year-Old Killed by Elephant, 2nd death at Vilas Zoo
          Two Boys Suffocate in Refrigerator
          Strangls kids, hangs self - 2 kids 1 woman
          Car Crash Myres - 1 infant 1 teen 1 adult
  • 1965
          Lange drowning (Minn) - 1 kid 2 adults
          Belcher - 3 adults
  • 1964
          Car Crash Massey Family - 2 kids
  • 1963
          Drowning Trumpy Strudell - 2 teens
  • 1962
          Gates-Orsburne Drown - 1 kid 2 adults
          Plane Crash (Chippewa Falls) - 5 Men
  • 1961
          Car Crash Bride Best Man - 1 teen 1 adult
  • 1960
          Car Crash (Iowa) - 1 kid 2 adults
          Car Crash Convertible - 2 teens
• 1950s
  • 1955
          Animals
  • 1953
          Crash Kuyk Walt - 2 teens
  • 1952
          Low flying plane - 4 Adults
          Four Die in Three Car Crash
          Two Electrocuted - 2 Adults
  • 1950
          DeGregory Stoudt Drowning - 2 teens
• 1940s
  • 1949
          Dussling Furumo Drownings - 2 kids
  • 1948
          Auto Accident
          Fire Kills Mother and Three Children
  • 1947
          Car-Train Sefkar - 3 kids
  • 1945
          Father and Son Overcome by Gas
  • 1944
          Mother Dies Saving 2yo Son in Fire
  • 1940
          Four Die as Taxi Hit by Train
• 1930s
  • 1939
          Oven Crashes Through Floor, Kills Two Firemen
  • 1938
          Two Young Boys Go Through Ice on Lake Mendota, Drown
  • 1936
          Four Men Drown in Lake Mendota
          Three Kids Die When Sled is Hit by Car
  • 1935
          Boy Starts Fire With Matches, Dies With Grandmother
  • 1934
          Two Children Die in Shed Fire
  • 1933
          Father & Son Drown as Car Breaks Through Ice
          Parents, Daughter Overcome by Gas
  • 1932
          Boy dies from polar bear attack, first death at Vilas Zoo
  • 1931
          Plane Crash at Madison Airport Kills Three
  • 1930
          Teen Tries to Save Brothers From Drowning, Two Die
• 1920s
  • 1929
          Mother Kills Herself, Toddler
          Homemade Boat Goes Under, Five Men Drown
  • 1928
          Car Goes Through Lake Mendota Ice, Man & Bay Drown       Mother Tries to Save Daughter, Both Drown
• 1910s
  • 1918
          Flu Epidemic Shut Down City For Weeks, Many Die
  • 1916
          Woman Shoots Herself, Toddler
          Strong Winds Blow Iceboat Into Open Water Three Men Drown
• 1900s
  • 1905
          Two Young Boys Drown After Going Through Lake Mendota Ice
  • 1903
          Iroquois Theater Fire Kills Hundreds, 5 Madisonians
• Before 1900
  • 1898
          Explosian of a Boiler in North-Western Roundhouse Kills Three
  • 1893
          St. Regina Academy Fire Kills Three Young Girls
  • 1886
          Explosion of a Boiler in CM&StP Roundhouse Kills Three Men
  • 1883
          Capitol Collapses During Expansion, Six Men Die
  • 1860
          Fire on Shanty Hill Takes Five Lives