Maybe the author of the article just spelled them the way they sounded? cheryl -------------------------------------------------- From: "marlo" <marlo50@bex.net> Sent: Monday, October 18, 2010 4:39 PM To: <hungary@rootsweb.com> Subject: Re: [HUNGARY] Falling Wall Kills 1907 > Cheryl, this is a very interesting article, however do those names sound > Hungarian to you? What part of Hungary would they come from? > Margaret > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Cheryl Wenberg" <cherlock@cheqnet.net> > To: <hungary@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, October 18, 2010 4:57 PM > Subject: [HUNGARY] Falling Wall Kills 1907 > > >> >> New York Tribune April 28, 1907 >> >> Perth Amboy, New Jersey >> >> Four men were instantly killed, three badly hurt and fifteen others >> injured this afternoon by the falling >> of a brick wall at the De La Mar Copper Works, at Chrome, about eight >> miles from here on Staten Island >> Sound. All the victims were Hungarians. The cause of the accident is >> unknown. >> >> The catastrophe aroused great excitement among the Hungarian families. >> Women and children stoned >> officers of the plant because they were not admitted inside the grounds. >> An attempt was also made by >> the half crazed crowd to wreck a train that was brought to the works to >> take the injured men to a >> hospital in Elizabeth. >> >> The wall was twelve inches thick and twelve feet high. It was part of a >> new copper ore smelter, and >> had just been finished today. It stood on a street trestle fifteen feet >> high, about which a large gang >> was at work grading. >> >> The four who were instantly killed were: >> >> Zunyo WAGEE >> >> George SKINSKY >> >> Louis OLI >> >> Frank GINFE. >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> HUNGARY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 8.5.448 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/3204 - Release Date: 10/18/10 > 06:34:00 > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > HUNGARY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >