1906 WB Record Almanac, Fatal Accidents in 1905 DEC 1,1904 TO NOV 30, 1905 Other than those occurred in mines and railroads The following information is posted for the sole purpose of family research within the Yahoo Group, The Court House Gang. It is not to be published to any other web site, mailing list, group, etc. without prior written permission and guidelines from the group owner, to ensure that proper credit is given to the group and all of our volunteers that helped with this project. William McGreevey of Wilkes Barre, 23 yrs, falling from ladder while painting. Dec 1,1904 Nellie, d/o John O Jones,Wanamie,4 yrs, burned by lighting paper. Dec 3, 1904 Anna, d/o William Hughes, Wanamie, 6 yrs, from a fire in yard. Dec 4, 1904 Carl Doud, 15 yrs, s/o Superintendent Doud, Pond Creek, in hunting accident. Dec 4 1904 Mary, d/o John Harb???, Freeland, 3 yrs, by coal gas. Dec ?, 1904 Gustave M Schall, Wilkes Barre, ? Yrs, by a streetcar. Dec 7,1904 Stephen Grover, Conyngham Twp, 65 yrs, fell from his wagon and froze to death. Dec 10,1904 Joseph s/o Zadnawicz, Nanticoke,3 yrs, scalds. Dec 12, 1904 Roland Bush, Dunmore, head striking against bridge while riding a Laurel Line car in Jenkins Twp. Dec 19,1904 Michael Starasus, Plymouth, neck broken by a fall. Dec 15,1904 1905 John Waselewski, Honey Pot,11 yrs, falling on ice. Jan1 Mathias Szambulski, Port Griffith, skull fractured falling down stairs. Jan 1 William Kunkle, Hazleton, 44 yrs, falling from wagon at Fairview. Jan 4 Son of Stephen Estak, Nanticoke,11 months, scalded. Jan 14 George Butkowski, Plymouth, overdose of medicine for stomach ache. Feb 8 Miss Martha Aiken, Plains, 45 yrs, burns. Feb 15 Anthony Muranckis, Edwardsville,32 yrs, asphyxiated by gas in a Wilkes Barre hotel no date Oscar M Lance Jr, Kingston, ??yrs, accidental shooting. Feb 27 Joseph Ragule,26 yrs, and John Kreet, 12 yrs, Plymouth Twp, burned to death in house fire. Feb 2? John s/o Michael Pisock 3 yrs, Wilkes Barre Twp, scalded falling in tub of hot water, Mar 1 ? Joseph Peles,Maltby,45 yrs, falling down steps, Mar 2 ??ella Smith, Exeter Boro, 4 yrs, playing with matches, Mar 5 Mrs. Mary Mangan, Pittston, struck by car. Mar 11 ?aniel Day, Wilkes Barre,54 yrs, struck by strret car, Mar 18 Mrs. Margaret James,50 yrs, West????, run over by a trolley. Mar ?? Mrs Mary Walsh , 55 yrs and her grandchild Helen Walsh, 3 yrs, Edwardsville, suffocated by coal gas from Stove. Mar 25 ??dro Biske, Luzerne boro, neck broken by falling from wagon, Mar ?? ?hester Clarke, Alderson, bursting ???ey, died at City Hospital, Mar 31 Hugh O’Boyle, Wilkes Barre, at Nanticoke by a fall, Mar 30 ?ellie d/o Lawrence Mas???i, Plymouth,6 yrs, clothes ignited by a brush fire, Apr 4 ?heophilis Skadlas, Wilkes Barre, falling into river from Plymouth bridge. Apr 10 Edgar Anderson, 23 yrs, Shickshinny, struck by a flying board in saw mill. Apr 12 Mary d/o Joseph Hiopko,Plymouth,7 yrs, clothing ignited at brush fire. Apr 13 Dixon McKennon, Shickshinny, 12 yrs, of hydrophobia from a dog’s bite. Apr 20 Charles Christ, Forty Fort,1? Yrs, run over by a wagon. Apr 22 Ruth, d/o Henry Cummings, Wyoming,4 yrs, yard fire. Apr 28 Son of Daniel Brown, Avoca, 3 yrs, falling in tub of boiling water. May 1 Miss Emma Maue, Conyngham, accidentally shot. May 11 Joseph Cavanaugh, Avoca, 23 yrs, struck by Laurel Line car. May 11 Samuel Weisenberg, Wilkes Barre, on Laurel Line car. May 14 Daughter of Peter Ziednowicz, Glenson? 3 yrs, by street car. May 21 Child of John Secock, Hudson,1 yr, falling in tub of hot water. May 22 Mrs Besssie Beagall, 18 yrs, burned in a gypsy tent near Parsons. May 24 Son of John Albro, Pittston, 2 yrs, burned at bonfire. May 26 James J s/o John Kanley,15 yrs, Wilkes Barre, thrown from bicycle. June 10 Miss Kate Norton, Wilkes Barre, result of fall. June 13 John McHugh, Plymouth Twp, ?yrs, while bathing in a dam. June ? Thomas Healy, Port Griffith, drowned in the river. June 15 Joseph Ereski, 11 yrs, Fairview, while bathing in a pond. June 19 Ralph Canouse, Wyoming, 23 yrs, drowned in a cellar after being seized in a fit. June 21 Annie, daughter of Andrew Klinechar, Port Griffith, 4 yrs, by a street car. June 28 George Ocock, Sugar Notch, 22 yrs, in Lake Nuangola while bathing. July 4 James Davenport, Shickshinny,9 yrs, while bathing in river. July 10 Otto, son of Mr and Mrs August Buchna, Nanticoke, 14 yrs, from lockjaw as a result of blank cartridge on 4th.July 11 Ambrose Dreisbach, Harding, while bathing in river. July 12 Paul, son of Paul Kittle, West Pittston, 6 yrs, falling from wagon. July 13 Anthony Skinner, burned at fertilizing works. July 17 Theodore Lodmock, Wilkes Barre, 16 yrs, drowned in river while bathing. July 18 Frank Silven, burned at fertilizing works at Butzbach’s. July 20 John, son of Mr and Mrs Felix Lynch, Ashley,7 yrs, lockjaw caused by running a splinter into feet. July 24 James Vanloon Sr., Wilkes Barre, 79 yrs, falling down stairs. July 24 Miss Lizzie Lyons, 18 yrs, Georgetown, burns. July 22 Benjamin F Butler, 32 yrs, explosion at Gracedale powder mill. July 24 Patrick Finn, Wilkes Barre Twp, 52, falling into a mine cave. July 26 Anthony Ritz, Wilkes Barre, 45, falling from his wagon and horse stepping on his head. July 26 James, son of Joseph Delaney, Pittston, 6 yrs, by Laurel Line third rail. July 28 Child of Ignatz Ruposky, 4 yrs, Rice’s Patch, burned to death while playing with matches. Aug 2 Anthony, son of William Lanlawicz, Plymouth, 13 yrs, drowned in river. Aug 4 Peter Zemeter, West Pittston, 40 yrs, caving of sewer trench. Aug 7 Joseph, son of Peter Shaikey, Kingston, 10 yrs, drowned in a pond while bathing. Aug 10 John H Hessler, Wilkes Barre, falling on railroad tracks and fracturing his skull. Aug 21 Michael Toole, Wilkes Barre,63 yrs, falling down stairs. Aug 22 John Nowak, Sturmersville,22 yrs, on Laurel Line. Aug 24 Jacob Lowsky, Sugar Notch, by gas which he ignited while entering a mine opening. Aug 25 Roman Rososki, Plymouth, 52 yrs, falling from a trestling. Aug 30 John Piackowsky, Buffalo, who was visiting at Port Bowkley, drowned while bathing in river. 17 yrs. Sept 5 James Clark, Scranton, in the collapsing of part of the new North Wilkes Barre brewery building. Sept 6 Harry Merchant, Boston, foreman for the work being done in the river at Mill Creek by the Electric Light Company,falling from a boat. Sept 6 Lewis Wyant, Parsons, falling from a barn at Lehman Centre. Sept 6 John Shepso, Port Bowkley, 28 yrs, by the capsizing of a boat on the river. Sept 11 Helen Stawna, Nanticoke, by dress catching fire. Sept 10 Desmond D. Dershimer, Wilkes Barre, 34 yrs, Falling into one of the West Side flats pond holes while Fishing. Child of John McMehlis, Port Griffith, 16 months, falling into a vessel of boiling coffee. Sept 14 Helen Sedden, Plainsville, 14 yrs, clothes catching fire from a stove. Sept 17 John Ricketts, Wilkes Barre, explosion of a soda water tank in the Plains Brick drugstore. Sept 22 Edna, daughter of Richard R Green, Nanticoke, 7 yrs, becoming entangled in a colliery rope and crushed to death. Sept 26 Patrick J Duddy, Plains, on the Larel Line. Oct 9 James White, Scranton, abt 30 yrs, asphyxiated on culm bank at Hudson. Oct 13 Michael Yatso, Midvale, struck by Laurel Line car. Oct 16 Sidney Lissuppi, Brodrick, accidental discharge of his gun while hunting. Oct 29 John Carpenter, Plymouth, on a railroad in Scranton while attending the Mitchell Day celebration. Oct 29 Helen, daughter of John Emrick, Wilkes Barre, 4 yrs, burned while house was on fire. Oct 28 Child of Mrs. Michael Szuen, Wilkes Barre, 2 yrs, clothing catching fire while playing around kitchen stove. Nov 1 Little son of Alexander Hare, West Pittston, run over by a wagon. Nov 4 John Magas, Alden, 4 yrs, falling in tub of hot water. Nov 18 Rereti Panza, 17 yrs, crushed between rollers at the plant of the General Crushed Stone Co near Parsons. Nov 21 Charles Turne, Lackawanna county, run over by a train at Sugar Notch. Nov 28 Typed by Edna Schlauch, November 2003