1741

1741-01-25 New York Weekly Journal
New York. From Newark we hear that on Tuesday the 12 instant, one James Souther, being about to blow a blast in one of the mines, near to that place, and having made his fuze too short, or being to inadvertent to seek a retreat, some of the fragments of the rock struck him and broke and bruised him to that degree, that he expired within a few hours.

On Tuesday last a Westchester boat, was overset, not far northward of Corlaer’s Hook, with three men on board, two sav’d their lives by swimming, but the third being entangled in the rigging was drowned, when the boat was righted, they found his body fast to the boat; it is said that it was Thomas Hunt, an inhabitant of Westchester.

On Tuesday last a chimney took fire in Prince Street, and burnt with such fury that even the neighbouring houses were in danger.

And on Thursday a back house at the lower end of King’s-Street, near Burnet’s Key, took fire, and burnt vehemently, by which all the adjacent houses, which are very closely built, but the adjacent Square would have been in eminent danger; but by the diligent managing of the four fire engines it was prevented.