sentences:  They left twenty seven widows, one hundred and eighteen children, and twenty one dependants.A Public Subscription was raised and the cottages, known as Widows Row, were built for the widows and dependants.A local song about the disaster says "Newcastle town is one long street entirely stripped of men"
  
  In 1910 Harry Ferguson flew a small plane across Newcastle beach in one of the first engine powered flights by aircraft in Ireland.