Picnic Deaths
Two deaths after an Emerald Association picnic in Brooklyn: John McLaughlin killed by a fender at the dock, and a lad named Kelly struck by a stone meant for an ice cream vendor.
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The Cairo Bulletin · July 11, 1873 · Page 1
1 min readNEW YORK, July 10.
New York, July 10. The Emerald association of Brooklyn had a picnic yesterday, and on returning and while the barge was making fast to the dock, John McLaughlin, one of the excursionists, and a married man, was accidentally killed by being struck with a fender thrown from the dock.
Soon afterwards while a number of young men who had been on the excursion were returning, one of them hurled a stone at an ice cream vendor, which missed him and struck a lad named Kelly, causing death soon afterwards.
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