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The abbreviations:
'ult.' ="last date last month.
'inst.' stands for instant, or within the same month. 
Abbreviations found in Genealogy and Old nrespapers

NOTE: Be sure to check other directories
Newspapers Index
Deaths
Marriage


1776 Fire in NYC
Yellow Fever of 1798



1835 Great Fire in New York Story
1835 Great Fire in New York Eyewitness description



Barnum's Museum in Manhattan Fire 13 July 1865



1876 BROOKLYN THEATRE FIRE
1876 Fire Monument Photos in Green-Wood



1877 Great Fire New York
1877 December Candy Factory Fire..N.Y.



1882 Potter Building Fire
1885 State Street Machine Shop Fire ("Glass House" Catastrophe)
1892 Metropolitan Opera House fire



1657 Long Islands 1st shipwreck
1780 H.M.S. HUSSAR sank in the East River at Hell Gate
1836 Wreck of the Bristol
1836 Wreck of the Mexico
1840 Wreck of Steamboat Lexington
1886 Wreck of S.S. Oregon off Fire Island
1886 Murder On The High Sea
1892 Cholera Panic
Islip officials & townspeople try to stop a 
quarentine of Ship passengers on Fire Island
1918 Wreck of SS San Diego-Navy Cruiser off Fire Island
1944 Wreck of the U.S. Destroyer Turner
Famous Shipwrecks of Eastern Long Island
Shipwrecks Amityville, L.I., N.Y. (misc. )1800s-1900s
  



Typhoid Mary - Long Island  (interesting) spread of typhoid fever
 



1805  Malignant Fever
New York Evening Post 
RECORD OF DEATH



YELLOW  FEVER
List of the Names of the persons who have died in New-York,
from the 29th of July, to the beginning of November, 1795.

1888 Great Blizzard In Manhattan



1896 Heat-wave In Manhatan
1910 Devastating Thunderstorm hits N.Y.C



GENERAL SLOCUM DISASTER 15 June 1904
SLOCUM DISASTER Newspaper Account & Dead
PHOTO GALLERY:
GENERAL SLOCUM DISASTER



Triangle Shirtwaist Factory 1911 in New York, 146 women died
Triangle Fire..List of those who died
Triangle fire photos
  
Triangle fire witnesses
Preliminary report investigating commission 1912



1908 Explosion on Gold St. Bklyn
1912 Eqitable Building Fire



1918 B.R.T. Accident 2 November
Long Island's Rail Road's worst train crash 1950
1950 Long Island Railroad Crash




1918 The Malbone Street Wreck
1918 The Malbone Street Wreck Death Beneath the Streets



1920 Big Bang on Wall Street



1928 August Subway Crash



1938 The Great Hurricane of Long Island
1938 Great Hurricane



1944 Luna Park, Coney Island Fire



1945 B-25 Bomber crash-Empire State Building
 
1950 Long Island Railroad Crash



Tragedies none the less..New York Times


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