Found Dead in His Berth

New York, 1895

William Barclay, second mate of the Scotch ship Barcraig, taking on a cargo of oil for China at the Standard Oil works, Long Island City, was found dead in his berth Monday morning.



Ayer's Cathartic Pills (1895 advertisement)

Henry Ward Beecher once informed a man who came to him complaining of gloomy and despondent feelings, that what he most needed was a good cathartic, meaning, of course, such a medicine as Ayer's Cathartic Pills, every dose being effective.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, April 19, 1895, p. 5.

Fell on a Red Hot Stove

New York, 1895

While skylarking Friday afternoon, James Flanigan, of Whitestone, accidentally threw his younger brother face foremost on a red-hot stove, and the boy was terribly burned. When the lad was taken from the stove part of his flesh adhered to the lids of the range. He is badly disfigured and will be scarred for life.


Another of the Place's Victims

The body of Charles Allen, of the schooner Louis V. Place, which was wrecked off Sayville, was buried alongside those of the seamen of the ill-fated vessel, in the Episcopal cemetery at Patchogue on Friday.

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

Joined Again by Death

New York, 1895

William Richmond and his wife Jerusha, an aged couple who have lived for many years at Southold and were among the wealthy citizens there, were both stricken with pleuro-pneumonia a couple of weeks ago. Last Friday Mrs. Richmond died. Her aged husband was not informed of her death because of his dangerous condition, but her remains were kept until he would be able to view her for the last time. Wednesday morning he, too, died. The loving old pair were buried together on Friday. Mr. Richmond was 70 years old and his wife was 65.

Comment: Note that they are described as "an aged couple," yet he was 70 and she was only 65.


His Stormy Career Closed

Benjamin Tyler died at Smithtown on Monday. He was a retired sea captain who had a remarkable record of shipwrecks. The schooner Annie Carll, his last vessel, was wrecked three times and finally lost off the coast of Spain. Captain Tyler and his men were rescued by a Spanish gunboat, while an English brig, which transferred the schooner's cargo and was carrying it to New York was wrecked on the voyage.


Editor Johnson Dead

Frank A. Johnson, of the Bay Shore Journal, died in Philadelphia Tuesday morning. Mr. Johnson had been ill with consumption.

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

Eleven Sailors Rescued — Six Perished in the Rigging

New York, 1895

It was an awful storm out at sea. Ocean steamships were delayed three to four days. When they arrived they were coated with ice from one to three feet thick. The crew of the four-masted schooner John B. Manning were rescued from their sinking craft Friday morning by the life saving crew of the Lone Hill station off Eastport. The Manning had driven ashore and was pounding to pieces on the beach. Two hours after they reached the shore in safety the men of the Manning were helping the life savers in an attempt to rescue the crew of another schooner.

Two sailors, speechless from exhaustion, stiffened with cold, and all but dead with the suffering of a forty hour fight for life in the rigging of the schooner Louis V. Place, which wont ashore near Patchogue in the gale on Friday morning, were rescued at midnight on Saturday by the life saving crew of the Lone Hill station. Six of their shipmates died one by one under their eyes, either dropping into the ice-filled surf or freezing to death lashed to the rigging. The survivors are William Stevens and S. J. Nelson. Their rescue puts eleven lives saved from the storm to the credit of the Lone Hill crew.

For a long time after the rescue the two sailors were unable to speak even enough to tell the name of their ill-fated craft. Stevens was the first to revive, and his story of the wreck and of the cruel struggle against cold and exhaustion, during those long hours, with life and safety literally Within their grasp, though they had not the strength to avail themselves of it; with their comrades dying one by one beside them, and finally of the horror of the two dead bodies swinging from the lashings which had been life hope of the living men, and threatening to knock the wretched survivors into the sea, is such a record as is seldom found in the annals of the sea.

The wrecked vessel was the three-masted schooner Louis V. Place, from Baltimore to New York, laden with coal, with a captain and crew of seven men. Of these the following are dead:

Squires, William H., Captain, Bridgehampton, L. I., 55 years old, married; leaves a wife and two children.

Jaiby, ——, mate, Norway, 44 years old, unmarried.

Allen, Charles, engineer, Providence, 28 years old, unmarried.

Morrison, Charles, cook.

Oelson, Gus, seaman, Sweden, 28 years old.

Ward, Fritz Oscar, seaman, Norway, 21 years old, unmarried.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, Feb. 15, 1895, p. 1.

Note: Jaiby just had those dashes in the article, indicating they didn't have a first name for him.

Died In The Blizzard

New York, 1895

SIX SAILORS PERISH IN THE RIGGING OF A STRANDED SCHOONER.

The Storm was Terrific Both on the Land and on the Sea — Three Persons Killed and Several Hurt on the Railroad — A Man and a Woman Frozen to Death.

The storm of Thursday night and Friday was the severest that has visited Long Island since the blizzard of 1888. The high wind drifted the snow, blocking the railroads and highways, and making travel almost impossible. The cold was intense, the mercury in some sections marking 6 below zero. At Peck's Hall of Pharmacy, Jamaica, the mercury at 8 o'clock Friday morning marked 4 degrees above zero. Travel on the electric road between East New York and Jamaica was entirely suspended, although attempts were made by the company to keep the road open. Friday evening the road was opened and Saturday cars were running regularly. So intense was the cold that the men employed by Isaac B. Remsen at cutting ice, refused to work. Saturday they resumed work and cut ice ten inches thick.

Travel was delayed on the main lines of the Long Island railroad. The Greenport express train, due at Jamaica at 10.30 A. M., did not reach Long Island City until late in the evening. Only one train from Hempstead reached Jamaica on Friday. It was drawn by two engines.

The first train west from Jamaica over the Atlantic avenue division crashed into the rear of a rapid transit train near the Morris Park station. Two persons were injured, one of them, Hugh Livingston, the engineer, severely.

The passengers on several of the west bound trains on the Long Island railroad that became stalled were obliged to remain in the cars all of Friday night. The company furnished them with food and made them quite comfortable. Saturday afternoon the blockade was raised.

Streams and ponds that have not been frozen over in years were covered with ice from six to eight inches in thickness. Jamaica Bay was frozen over and men crossed on the ice from the mainland to the beach.

W. A. Hawkins, a baker at Southold, drove to Greenport, some five miles, on Friday. Upon reaching home his family noticed that the horse remained unhitched standing in the yard. Upon going to the wagon they discovered Hawkins sitting on the seat all but dead from the cold. He was unconscious and in a terrible condition. He was carried into the house and a doctor summoned.

Friday morning William Sells, colored, residing at Greenport, after playing for a dance, started to walk to his home, a distance of five miles. After falling through the trestle work of the railroad three times, he reached Greenport with his ears, hands and feet frozen.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, Feb. 15, 1895, p. 1.