Remembering 1930's Ohio Penitentiary Fire

Bodies by the hundred were piled in the Ohio Penitentiary prison yard in the early morning hours of April 22, 1930, as the death toll mounted in one of the worst fires in U.S. history
April 21, 2003
Bodies by the hundred were piled in the Ohio Penitentiary prison yard in the early morning hours of April 22, 1930, as the death toll mounted in one of the worst fires in U.S. history
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