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JOHN CROWELL HILL – DEATH OF J.C. HILL
[Welland Tribune, 22 February 1889]
A fearful accident occurred at Hartford, Conn., about five o’clock Monday morning, resulting in about twenty-five deaths-among them that of John Crowell Hill, son of the late Andrew Hill of Pelham township. The disaster was caused by the explosion of the boilers in the hotel, from some unknown cause. The hotel, which was a poor affair with which the insurance companies would have nothing to do, was completely wrecked. Mr. Hill, whose home is in Buffalo where he has lived for many years past, was a commercial traveller for Wm. P. Miller, oil merchant, Brooklyn, being a transient lodger at the hotel on the ill-fated day of the disaster. His body was recovered, and the funeral will take place to-day, Friday. It will arrive here by train from Buffalo this forenoon; service will be held at the brick meeting house of the Friends, Pelham, interment in the burying ground adjoining.
Deceased leaves a widow and a bright boy of twelve years to mourn their appalling, great and sudden loss.
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