This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Connell, Wachtel, Sands Classification: Death Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/WUB.2ACI/1338 Message Board Post: 1887 MAY 03 Brooklyn Eagle THREE DEATHS FROM DIPHTHERIA A section of the village of Jamaica continues to be scourged by diphtheria. Three children died from the disease yesterday in the families of John CONNELL, Phillip WACHTEL and Theodore SANDS.