Fell Off the Dock and Drowned

New York, 1895

Maggie Jones of Douglaston took little six-year-old Freddie Ellebrect fishing on Friday. The two went to the village dock. Little Freddie dropped his line, and soon there was a tug at the end. In the excitement that followed the lad fell overboard. He was pulled out by William Harper, Elf Brown and Michael Costin. The lad was rolled on a barrel, but could not be resuscitated. He died in a few minutes.


Upset the Doughnut Grease

Thomas Gorman, a baker employed in Muldoon's bakery at Long Island City, upset a cauldron of grease, in which he had been boiling doughnuts, early Monday morning. He was severely burned about the legs and body. He was taken to St. John's hospital. The grease caught fire and the fire department was called out to extinguish the flames.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, April 19, 1895, p. 1.