Disasters

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Bunking Fire Laddies and the Bowery Theatre Fire [published Apr. 22, 1883]

jpkntz March 31, 2024

Passin’ by an engine house the other day...

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The Stampede and Stairway Collapse at Ward School No. 26 [published Feb. 25, 1883]

jpkntz March 22, 2024

Every father and mother in New York has...

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The New York Earthquake of 1870 [published Aug. 17, 1884]

jpkntz January 30, 2024

People have been talkin’ earthquake durin’ the last...

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Two Actors, Two Friends, Two Marine Disasters [published Nov. 18, 1883]

jpkntz January 1, 2024

The other night, when the wind was whistlin’...

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New York City’s First Rail Disaster [published Oct. 8, 1882]

jpkntz November 6, 2023

The tunnel horror, which is now bein’ investigated,...

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The Deadly Theatre Fires of New York [published Mar. 27, 1881]

jpkntz October 3, 2023

The terrible catastrophe at the Opera House in...

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Captain Dustan At the End of His Rope [published Feb. 3, 1884]

jpkntz September 17, 2023

The loss of the steamer City of Columbus...

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How Sandy Spencer Got to New York [published May 3, 1885]

jpkntz August 25, 2023

Sandy Spencer is dead, and the papers have...

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Wreck of the Mexico on Hempstead Beach [published Sep. 4, 1881]

jpkntz August 11, 2023

Everythin’ has been always big about Rockaway, even...