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From: "Mimi Nicotina" <>
Subject: Re: [NY-TROY-IRISH-GENSOC] Sickles,Link,Brown,Lodewick,Quigley
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2009 13:00:54 -0400
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thank you Joyce,for this last article....we have the name Sickles in our
family tree,and did you know that there was a famous Civil War general by
that name,from this area??thanks again,I will research this James
Sickles,and see if he is "one of ours". What you are doing,is quite a
valuable contribution. Mimi
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Subject: [NY-TROY-IRISH-GENSOC] Sickles,Link,Brown,Lodewick,Quigley


>
> Saturday August 15, 2009 TroyRecord Article 100years ago Sunday, August
> 15, 1909“The captain of a Troy-based steamboat defends the conduct of
> his
> crew following reports of a collision with a rowboat that leaves one man
> dead,
> The Record reports.The accident happens this morning near Tivoli during
> the Trojan’s trip from New York City to Troy. According to a telegraph
> dispatch from Poughkeepsie, the Hudson River Navigation steamer ran down
> a
> rowboat that had two men on board.
> One of the rowers, James Sickles, drowned. The other,Robert Link,
> managed
> to swim to shore.In an interview for tomorrow’s paper, Captain Brown of
> the Trojan explains that he and his crew did everything possible to try
> to
> locate the rowers.“We were off the Tivoli docks about 1 o’clock in the
> morning when Pilot Isaac Lodewick, who was at the wheel, and the lookout
> saw an
> object about seventy-five feet ahead,” Brown
> says.“We whistled and stopped and started to back. It was reported to me
> at once that there was a possibility that we had run over a boat.
> However,no
> outcry had been heard, and no light had been seen that
> would indicate the presence of a boat, although river regulations require
> that tall boats shall carry lights at night. “In less than five minutes we
> had lowered a lifeboat and with three men in it a search was made of the
> river. We used the searchlight and for forty minutes the light and the
> men in
> the boat continued to look for any trace of an accident.“At that time the
> atmosphere was a little hazy and there was some smoke on the water, but
> not
> enough to prevent us from seeking objects. In the search for evidences of
> an accident the
> greatest speed and care were exercised and not a vestige of anything
> could
> be found. There was no wreckage, although if we had struck a boat there
> would have been some indication of it on the surface, and it
> would have been impossible for a swimmer to have reached a point
> sufficiently distant to have escaped our searchlight and our boat.”The
> Trojan crew
> continued to search because passengers had reported hearing cries for
> help,but Capt. Brown “could not verify” their claims. After “we had
> exhausted
> every means at hand
> for determining whether or not an accident had occurred,” the steamer and
> two vessels that had joined the search continued on their scheduled
> courses.Our reporter concludes that Brown’s statement “creat[ed]
> something of a doubt as to the accuracy of the dispatch from
> Poughkeepsie.”
> There is no independent
> report confirming the accident or the death of James Sickles as our
> Monday
> evening edition goes to press.
>
> MURDER RULED OUT. A dead body is found today on the New York Central
> railroad tracks, four miles west of the Albany line, but investigators
> have
> ruled out murder as the cause of death.The corpse is identified as Frank
> J.
> Quigley of Auburn.Investigators initially feared foul play by tramps when
> they discovered a puncture wound in Quigley’s side, but an autopsy has
> determined that the wound was caused by his own
> punctured rib.Investigators now believe that Quigley tried to hop a
> freight
> train but fell under the wheels.
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