Boston (MASS) Daily Atlas, April 28, 1851, p. 1.
The Corydon, Indiana, Argus, of the 15th, gives us the details of a terrible
affair that occurred in Harrison County on Thursday last. On that day an
Irishman named John Hanagan moved into a house in Posey Township and invited
one of his neighbors to a spree, or housewarming. He was seen about eight
o'clock, in liquor, and it is supposed that a portion of the family,
consisting of John Hanagan, his wife and six children, Mrs. O'Donnel,
Patrick Slave, one adult person, name unknown, and one child of John
O'Donnel, deceased, went to sleep under the influence of liquor. While
asleep, the house, by some means, caught fire and every one of the inmates,
twelve in number, met with a horrible death.