Hi, all -
from the "Providence (RI) Journal":
11.25.2000
Margaret T. Murphy dies; survivor of maritime disaster
PAWTUCKET, RI -- One of the last survivors of the 1925 Mackinac steamboat
disaster,
Margaret T. Murphy of Ferris Street, died Friday at home.
As a child, she was a passenger on the cruise ship when one of its boilers
exploded
as it sailed past Newport Harbor on its way back to Pawtucket, on Aug. 18, l925.
The boat had taken employees of the city's J. P. Coats Co. to a company
outing in
Newport, and was carrying more than 670 passengers when it blew up. Fifty-five
were killed in the disaster, or died later from injuries received in the
explosion.
Mrs. Murphy was one of only five survivors present last August, on the 75th
anniversary of the tragedy, when the city dedicated a monument on the City
Pier to
residents who died in the disaster.
Born in Pawtucket, a daughter of the late John F. and Mary (Woods) Carr, she was
a lifelong resident of Pawtucket. She was the wife of the late William E.
Murphy, and
a homemaker.
She leaves three daughters, Donna Lord of Riverside, and twin daughters Susan
Caswell of Lincoln and Sharon Murphy of Attleboro; two brothers, James Carr of
Enfield, Conn., and Edward Carr of Pawtucket; a sister, Gertude Mollohan of West
Warwick; and six grandchildren.
The funeral will be held Monday at 10 a.m. from the Manning-Heffern Funeral
home,
68 Broadway, with a Mass of Christian Burial in St. Teresa Church, Newport
Avenue,
at 11. Burial will be in St. Mary Cemetery.
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Beth Hurd
Johnston, RI USA
beth(a)the-hurds.com
http://www.the-hurds.com
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