John Fitzgerald died of pneumonia in Idaho as reported on page 2 of the December 15, 1894 issue of the Chicago Daily News.

More deaths were chronicled on page 6 of the same paper; Julia Beattie (nee Hogan), John Bermingham, Josie Brown, Mary Ann Cahl (nee Slattery), John Patrick Coan, Marrio Cuneo, Adolph James Dittenhoefer, Ferdinand Gans, Wilhelmene Gohlke, Josiah Greenwood, Carrie D. Johnson, Isabella L. Jones and John Kelly.

Obituaries were continued in a second column on page 6 of the December 15, 1894 issue of the Chicago Daily News; B. Levy Lange, Philip Lubeke, Margaret D. Morgan, Alice L. Morgan, Joseph P. Morrison, James Norton, Caroline Otto, Henry Palfreyman, Lilly Christina Rapp, Mary Ellen Ringland, John Robinson, Gertie Smith, Mary G. Spellman, Ann Sweetman and Albert Severens Wierderhold.