On a snowy evening on January 8, 1906, around 11:00 P.M., an unusual thaw triggered a landslide in the Village of Haverstraw that began at Allison Street (Front Street) and ended at Jefferson Street, destroying Liberty Street, Division Street, and Clinton Street as many homes and buildings collapsed and burned while sliding down a 100 ft. clay embankment into the brickyards. Nineteen people lost their lives, including four volunteer firemen: Joseph Albert, Rabbi Elimelech Aldin, Michael Barry, Alice Coyne, William Coyne, Rose Daly, Abraham Dias, David Edenbaum, Edward Heffern, William Hughes, Ida Manion, Lawrence Manion, Bartholomew (Bartley) McGovern, John McMurray, Benjamin Nelson, Harris Nelson, William (Wolf) Provitch, Abraham Silverman, and Sarah Silverman, with some victims never recovered and others unaccounted for.
