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Title: Onondaga's centennial. Gleanings of a century
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Bruce, Dwight H. (Dwight Hall), 1834-1908
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Publisher: (Boston) : The Boston History Company
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wder in the building, hefelt the shock of the disaster intensely and it probably hastened hisdeath. While he lived he contributed generously to the support ofmany of the sufferers. Three survivors of those injured are known to rich, 1. Balin, Thomas R. Hall, I:. Morehouse, John McDermot, Patrick Denfee, John Eliker, Paschal Thurber, John Jones, Handwri^ht, L. J. Benton, Lucas, Jerry Stevens, Mrs. Appleton, Miss Elliston, Thomas Roe, Myron Jacobs, a son of Peter I.do, Orson Putnam, ElishaJones, li. I.. Higgins, E. Rosebrook, !.. W, Bement, George B. Walter, George W. Benedick, Jona- Iami. Joim McCaslin, Frederick Strongman, Lewis Corbin, Lake. The following were slighly wounded; William 1.. Durkee, Richard Culvert, Oliver Drew,i Spencer, John B.Phelps, Or. James Koran, David Wheeler, Robert Armstrong, Nelsoni Mi. Martin, John Burns, I). Brown, Lewis Smith, Luke Collins, Henry Hoag, Thomas H.der, P, I.owe, John Conklin, S. Packwood, J. Grawe, I. O. Lawson, Samuel Hurst, John IIS. Sloan.
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THE VILLAGE AND THE CITY OF SYRACUSE. 457 be now living—Samuel Hurst, Paul Shaw, and Nelson Gilbert. ThomasG. Alvord is the only survivor of the coroners jury. Syracuse at about this time gained, justly or unjustly, an unenviablereputation for lawlessness. In 1841 there were seventy-five placeswhere liquor was sold; gambling places were in existence; horse-rac-ing was conducted which it was claimed brought disreputable char-acters to the village, and incendiarism was feared. A resolutionadopted in August said: We will unite our best efforts with those of the civil magistrates, not only inbringing to punishment and driving out from among us the numerous blacklegs,gamblers and incendiaries by whom we are said to be infested, but also in uprootingthe infamous dens and resorts in our town, in which they are made, sustained andconcealed, whether existing as groceries, billiard rooms, bowling alleys or brothels. It is possible that while smarting under the recent awful sacrifice oflife, t

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