Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-01-01

The explosion Of lamp resulted in James
Robinson burning to death aboard the
schooner Richard Fall.
1t was not until the seventh OF the
month that Coroner hewitt had fatal
accident in July to investigate. Rolly
Ellis. colored. was the victim. He was
drowned in the Eastern branch while
bathing. Frank \. O'Brien, stonemason.
fell on the stairs at his home the follow
ing DAY and died. Frank Munson died of
tctanus resulting from an injury to his
foot. Robert Townsend died from burns.
Mary e. Thompson. colored- walked in
her sleep the morning of August 70. and
fell from an upper window at her home.
1l1o 10th street. She died at the Elmer
sency Hospital. An accidentally discon-
nected tube of gas stove was RESPONSE
BILE for the death of William Radtke OF
10 Sth street Raymond J. Thomas was
drowned in the basin. Patrick Brophy
was killed by a street car. John Byrne' s
death was due to the inhalation of il
Illuminating gas. He was found dead in a
room in a Pennsylvania avenue hotel.
Daniel Common. a Waterman. was drown
ed in the river near the foot Of I'd street
southeast.
4 gas explosion early in the month OF
August caused the death OF Conrad Tyrell.
Richard Smith lost his life in the river.
Margaret c. Newheiser was run down by
a motorcycle and killed. John Clifford
McGiill, school boy. fell from an upper
porch at 9th and IL streets and fractured
his skull. dying at the Emergency Hospl-
tai several hours afterward.
Thomas II. Hummer was struck on the
head with a piece of iron while unloading
a wagon. jeff Lewis Mcqueen, former
resident of Kentucky. died from illuminat-
ing gas.
Gas from a defective fixture snuffed out
the life Of E. f. Ferris. peddler. He
was found dead the morning of October
3 in his room at 211 John Marshall place.
Thomas Moran fell from a workcar in
Anacostia and received a fractured skull
Daniel i. Sullivan died from an injury
\. Brown and Private Michael A. Downes
OF the fire depa rtment were killed by fall
ing walls of the Amrican Tobacco Com
pany building.
Struck by falling bricks and internally
injured. William Bell. colored. died Oc-
tober 10 at Georgetown University Hos
pital. Amos Coats was killed by IL car
on the Washington, Alexandria and
Mount Vernon line. Henry Carry died
from injuries received when he Wa:
caught between n. wagon and the wall o
d. stable. Cornelius Ifickel. clerk in the
office of the Southern Railway Company
inhaled illuminating gas and died. One
Jet was burning when his dead bod!
was found
November 3 Jane l.. Bush. seventy one
years old. was the victim of gas escaping
from Il defective fixture Hazel New
man. = years old. was fatally burned
while playing in the kitchen at her home,
1870 Florida avenue northwest William
.Artz, a plumber. was killed by an explo-
sion of acetylene gas. Reuben Young,
eighty-two years old. fell on the street
and sustained. fatal injuries. Frank
Weisbacher and Annie E. Heffernan were
asphyxiated in Il room at oil q street
northwest.
Mary Jenifer, an aged colored woman,
fell on stove and died from burns.
Mrs Sophie fischer, seventy years old.
It'd fr<,
tetanus Mrs Mary w. Longfellow.
eighty-seven years old, received a broken
hip in fall and died. George Abramson,
three years old. was fatally burned while
at a bonfire.
Clara Smiths death was due to carbon
monoxide poisoning. She died in the kitch-
en- at 2lO6 Clifton street. where hot
water heater was used. The death OF
Washington Roberts. Colored, sixty-seven
years old, was attributed to hydrOpho
bia. He was bitten by Il dog in Virginia
and died at the Emergency Hospital.
Vincenzo Monnarino was scalded with
hot coffee at his home in Purdy court.
While trying TO recover hat. Nllllam II
Moore fell overheard and was drowned
Carl Lehnert was killed by an automo-
bile and John T.. Dries was killed by
Illuminating gas
Queenie Watson. colored, eighty seven
wears old died at Childrens HoSplta
| December from burns received when
| her dress ignited from a stove. Melton
Baker fell downstairs at a PENNSYLVANIA
avenue hotel and was killed almost in
stantly. Stonewall Jackson Campbell in
ha.ed gas in his room. at 1908 9TH street
Avery Tracy and Emma Matthews, col
| ored, were asphyXiated the morning OF
December 10, while in the formers room
at Freedmen's Dental College. Howard
l.. Atkinson fell from a street car neal
18th and F streets and received injuries
which proved fatal. Thomas Clarke was
drowned in James Creek canal.