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48 people lost their lives just because one guy didn't want to pay his taxes.

Victims:
STUDENTS
Arnold Victor Bauerle, age 8, 3rd grade
Henry Bergan, age 14, 6th grade
Herman Bergan, age 11, 4th grade
Emilie Marian Bromundt, age 11, 5th grade
Robert F. Bromundt, age 12, 5th grade
Floyd Edwin Burnett, age 12, 6th grade
Russell Chapman, age 8, 4th grade
Forrest Robert “Bobby” Cochran, age 8, 3rd grade
G. Cleo Clayton, age 8, 2nd grade
Ralph Albert Cushman, age 7, 3rd grade
Earl Edwin Ewing, age 11, 6th grade
Katherine Onalee Foote, age 10, 6th grade
Marjorie Fritz, age 9, 4th grade
Carlyle Walter Geisenhaver, age 9, 4th grade
George Hall, Jr., age 8, 3rd grade
Willa Marie Hall, age 11, 5th grade
Iola Irene Hart, age 12, 6th grade
Percy Eugene Hart, age 11, 3rd grade
Vivian Oletta Hart, age 8, 3rd grade
Galen Lyle Harte, age 12, 6th grade
LaVere Robert Harte, age 9, 4th grade
Stanley Horace Harte, age 12, 6th grade
Francis Otte Hoeppner, age 13, 6th grade
Cecil Lorn Hunter, age 13, 6th grade
Doris Elaine Johns, age 8, 3rd grade
Thelma Irene McDonald, age 8, 3rd grade
Clarence Wendell McFarren, age 13, 6th grade
James Emerson Medcoff, age 8, 4th grade
Emma Amelia Nickols, age 13, 6th grade
Richard Dibble Richardson, age 12, 6th grade
Elsie Mildred Robb, age 12, 6th grade
Pauline Mae Shirts, age 10, 5th grade
Hazel Iva Weatherby, age 20, teacher
Elizabeth Jane Witchell, age 10, 5th grade
Lucile June Witchell, age 9, 5th grade
Harold LeMoyne Woodman, age 8, 3rd grade
George Orval Zimmerman, age 10, 3rd grade
Lloyd Zimmerman, age 12, 5th grade

ADULTS

Emory C. Huyck, Superintendent
Blanche Elizabeth Harte, age 30, teacher
Hazel L. Weatherby, teacher
Nelson McFarren, age 74, retired farmer
Glenn O. Smith, age 33, postmaster
Andrew Kehoe, perpetrator
Ellen "Nellie" Price Kehoe, victim

AS A RESULT

Beatrice Gibbs, age 10, 4th grade (died after hip surgery)
Richard Fritz, age 8, died a year later of myocarditis (thought to be directly caused by an infection from his injuries)

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