Saved at Sea — Died on Land

New York, 1895

On Saturday Soren J. Nelson, one of the two survivors of the schooner Louis V. Place, which was wrecked off Patchogue, died from exhaustion and tetanus. Nelson was in the rigging for thirty-nine hours in company with Claus Stevens. His hands and feet were frozen. Both men were removed to the Marine hospital, where it was found necessary to amputate both of Nelson's feet. Stevens, who was the more vigorous of the two was discharged from the hospital, on February 25, entirely recovered.


Mangled Under the Wheels

James Ball, 21 years old, employed as water boy on a construction train on the Long Island railroad, fell from the train at the Vernon avenue crossing in Long Island City Friday evening. He dropped directly under the wheels and his body was terribly mangled. Ball lived with an aunt in Newtown.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, March 8, 1895, p. 1.