Monday, August 18, 2008

William White of Canarsie Killed.

New York, 1895

William White, aged 70 years, while walking on the Manhattan Beach railroad track from East New York to his home in Canarsie, Monday afternoon, was struck by a west-bound train about 300 feet south of the New Lots road and instantly killed.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, June 21, 1895, p. 1.

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