Deaths Reported by the "Long Islander" 1891-1900

Unnamed or identified Surnames

Aan Italian@

d. 27 December 1891 at Wantagh; hit by the Patchogue Express train; working for the Brooklyn Water Works Aon the extension@; AHe was No. 32 on the contractor=s day-roll@

Aa Swede@

d. 29 July 1892 at Lloyd=s Neck; sunstroke while working on Mr. Myer=s farm

Achild@ 2 weeks

d. 28 September 1894 at Lower Melville; interment at Farmingdale; mother was Aan unmarried woman@; child had been under the care of Mrs. Halswarts

Aunknown man@

found 10 October 1894 in road near Hicksville and died soon afterwards; thought to be an inmate who wandered from the Kings County Insane Asylum in Kings Park; body not claimed and buried as a pauper by Queens County at Bethpage 16 October 1894; coroner=s jury ruled Adeath from exhaustion and exposure@; clothing marked by Kings County Almshouse, but Kings County had no record of him

AItalian woman@

d. 26 November 1894 at JamaicaAdriving a junk wagon on the electric railroad track@; the wagon Awas so shaken up@ when she turned the horse off the track that she fell out Astriking her head and breaking her neck@

Asailor@

found drowned at Jones Beach on 23 January 1895

Askeleton@

skeleton Asupposed to be that of a woman@ found 29 January 1895 at Baldwins by John R. Bedell on the edge of his farm, near a stream running from the reservoir

Askeleton of an unknown man@

found Alast week@ by a party of children hidden in the bushes Aat a point between Babylon and Lindenhurst@; 27 July 1895 paper

Aa man and a woman@

killed13 July 1895 at Woodhaven in a violent tornado which cut a path from New Jersey, across New York City and western Long Island, going out to sea over Jamaica Bay; Athe violence of the wind on Long Island was felt most severely at Woodhaven, where fifty houses were blown down, a man and a woman killed and about twenty-three persons injured@; extensive property damage at Woodhaven, including the schoolhouse, Athe two upper stories of which were wrecked@; Ahouses were lifted from their foundations and moved six or seven feet@

Ainfant@

body found 1 January 1897 at Glen Cove; had been strangled; wrapped in a sheet and left by the side of a lake

Achild@

d. 20 January 1897 at Brookville; left in an outbuilding belonging to Peter Hegeman at Brookville; given over to the care of Mrs. Mallison of Brookville

Afour men and one woman@

d. 31 May 1897 at Valley Stream; killed when a tally-ho coach containing 26 young people from the Greene Avenue Baptist Church, Brooklyn, was hit by a L. I. R. R. train at the Merrick Avenue crossing of the Mineola & Valley Stream Branch of the L. I. R. R.; Queens County coroner=s jury ruled against the railroad 26 June 1897 paper; Queens County grand jury ruled in favor of the railroad 10 July 1897 paper; editorial on the coroner=s jury decision in 26 June 1897 paper

Aeight were victims of the flood@

d. 14 July 1897 at Matteawan, N. Y.; killed when reservoir burst due to a Agreat fall of rain,@ giving Abut little warning@ to the people in a boarding house, which was hit by a wall of water

Asix were instantly killed@ and Atwo fatally injured@

d. 21 July 1897 at New Haven, Connecticut; killed in a Aterrible explosion@ at the Winchester Repeating Arms Company factory; Aside of building was blown out and debris thrown in every direction@; the family of each dead employee received $5,000 from Winchester, the Ausual amount given without question by the company in case of every fatal accident@

Akilling of ten people@

d. 8 September 1897 near Emporia, Kansas; Aserious train wreck@ caused by Amiscarriage of orders by a train dispatcher@

Aover twenty were killed@

d. 10 September 1897 at Hazelton, Pennsylvania; a group of deputy sheriffs fired into a crowd of 150 striking coal miners; Amuch indignation was expressed in the city at what was called an unwarranted attack on the strikers@

Ainfant child@

d. 28 September 1897 at East Norwich; inmate of Jones Institute in the care of Mrs. Mallison

Aan Italian@

d. Athe first of the week@; struck by a truck while riding his bicycle at Seaford; body identified by friends from Freeport; Mineola item, 9 October 1897 paper

Abody of a man@

found on beach near Huntington10 October 1897; Ahad been in the water for a long time@; Abelief that deceased was a sailor, and had been washed overboard in the Sound@; interment in vault at Huntington Rural Cemetery

Aseveral people@

killed 15 October 1897 at Cincinnati, Ohio, when dome of Robinson=s Opera House fell in

Apassengers and crew of coasting steamer Triton@

steamer wrecked 16 October 1897 on coast of Cuba between Dominica and Mariel, along north coast of Pinar del Rio province; survivors Ahave no knowledge of the fate of the captain, 200 passengers, soldiers and civilians and the thirty members of the crew of the Triton@

Anineteen people@

Anineteen people were known to have been killed@ 24 October 1897 near Garrisons, New York; Athe track gave way and plunged the train down an embankment into the Hudson River@; New York Central Railroad accident which killed the engineer and fireman along with 17 other people, Aincluding eight Chinamen@

Aabout 258 of the crew of the U. S. S. Maine@

killed in explosion of the ship 15 February 1898 at Havana, Cuba; Ahas aroused considerable feeling in the heart of every true American@; editorial in 19 February 1898 paper; see also ACauses that may Lead to Conflict@ and AThe Destruction of the Maine@ in the same issue 

Aa Hungarian@

d. 2 July 1898 at Brookville; sunstroke; employed by William Merritt; Ahad been but two months in this country@

Aloss of 571 lives@

4 July 1898Aoff the banks of Newfoundland@; collision of La Bourgogne and Cromartyshire; account of disaster and editor about the poor conduct of the crew in the 9 July 1898 paper

Aa Freeport, L. I. lad@

lost life on a ship in the Pacific Ocean heading for the KlondikeAa few weeks ago@; 9 July 1898 paper

Achild of a boarder at an Oyster Bay boarding house@

death from diphtheria; Oyster Bay item; 3 September 1898 paper

Afifteen have died@

d. 5 September 1898 at Cohoes, N. Y.; express train ran into a trolley car

Ayoung soldiers@

killed riding on train Alast week@ at Westbury, by falling against a post; one was claimed by relatives from New Jersey; the other was unclaimed and was interred at the Catholic cemetery, Westbury; was Athought that perhaps he had enlisted under a fictitious name@; Westbury item,10 September 1898 paper

Aforty-two passengers and fifty-three of the crew@

drowned 14 October 1898 off the coast of England; steamer Mohegan ran into a rocky ledge and sank

Atwo lives were lost@

d. 23 November 1898 at San Francisco, California; fire at Baldwin Hotel, Aone of the principal structures in San Francisco ... destroyed ... entailing a loss of $1,500,000@

Aconductor killed@

d. 28 November 1898 at Queens; L. I. R. R. locomotive Aentirely ruined in a collision with a heavy [snow] drift,@ following a blizzard which struck Long Island on 26-27 November 1898; see3 December 1898 paper for details of blizzard and its damage

Aher captain went down with her@

drowned 27 November 1898 off Oldfield Light [Town of Brookhaven]; schooner Hard Chance of Salem, Massachusetts, went ashore during blizzard and Ais a total wreck@; 3 December 1898 paper for details 

Aabout fifty lives lost@

in and around Boston, Massachusetts, during the blizzard of 26-27 November 1898; 3 December 1898 paper for details

A120 passengers and crew@

wreck of the Portland, which ran between Boston and Portland, Maine, off Cape Cod, Massachusetts, during blizzard of 26-27 November 1898; Aold mariners cannot understand why her captain did not put in at Gloucester harbor [Massachusetts] when he saw the storm brewing@; 3 December 1898 paper for details

Aan old employee of Roland Robbins@

d. 6 December 1898; suddenly; Woodbury item

Aa crew of eighteen men@

steamer Pendagoet, running between New York City and Bangor, Maine, Ahas not been heard from, and no doubt all on board were lost@ in the blizzard of 27 November 1898; Capt. DeWitt Barrett of Cold Spring was supposed to be pilot of the steamer, but due to an accident in which he lost his thumb, he remained at home and missed this run of the steamer

Afour were killed@

d. 13 December 1898 at New York City; Aan immense gas tank at Twenty and Twenty-first streets .... Collapsed ... with the result that a devastating flood was let loose@

Athirteen were killed outright and one died shortly after@

d. 9 January 1899 at Lincoln, New Jersey; two trains of the Lehigh Valley road Arushing at a high rate of speed crashed into each other@; both trains had been re-routed around a freight train onto the same track; an additional 30 people were seriously injured

Aloss of life to probably 40 persons@

d. 17 March 1899 at New York City