BEST 1872 newspaper GREAT FIRE in JERSEY CITY 1st FIREFIGHTER LINE OF DUTY DEATH

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BEST 1872 newspaper with a front-page AND inside-page headline detailed reports on the GREAT FIRE in JERSEY CITY, NJ, a disaster which accounted for the  1st FIREFIGHTER LINE OF DUTY DEATH in the Hudson County city -
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(RI) dated July 25, 1872, just a day after the disaster claimed the first firefighter life in the city. This issue features a prominent front-page headline report on the disaster with another more detailed report inside.  James McCarthy, the firefighter who succumbed in this tragedy is mentioned by name in this report.
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James W. McCarthy was only 34 years old when a wall collapsed while he battled a blaze on July 24, 1872. He had only been a firefighter for 13 months.
Steamer Engineer James W. McCarthy perished on July 24, 1872 when he responded to a commercial building burning on Provost Street. A brick wall collapsed over him. He was only 34 years old, and had been a firefighter for 13 months.
McCarthy’s name had been missing from the city’s list of line-of-duty deaths for decades. Fire Department historian and dispatcher Ira Rubin, through research, rediscovered McCarthy’s headstone about six or seven years ago, along with nine firefighters missing from the list.
Located in a section of the graveyard where many of the graves date from the decades just after the Civil War, McCarthy’s pale grave seemed to stand out against the backdrop of ivy-covered graves. His stone, dedicated by his fellow firefighters, says he was “killed while discharging his duty as an engineer of steamer.”
McCarthy was a member of Engine Company No. 3, which no longer exists. At the time it was located on Mercer Street near City Hall, according to Paul Schaetzle of the Gong Club. He said many of the early deaths in the department were associated with railroads, some after being hit by trains, others who fell while battling blazes near rail lines.
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