Friday, May 23, 2008

Fire at Long Island City

New York, 1895

Joseph Quinn and family, of Long Island City, had a narrow escape Saturday morning. They awoke to find their home in flames and succeeded in escaping in their night clothes. The firemen were delayed by the big snow-drifts, and the house was completely destroyed, entailing a loss of several thousand dollars.

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

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