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Water Death!

Drowned In The Delaware

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February 1, 1892

 

DROWNED IN THE DELAWARE.

Special Dispatch to The North American.
BURLINGTON, N. J., Feb. 1—William and Henry Wilcox, aged thirteen and fourteen years respectively, sons of Henry Wilcox, an employee of the Knickerbocker Ice Company at Kinkora, made fatal choice of the ice-bridged Delaware as their path to school. They had not gotten out of sight of their home before Henry broke through and William, who bravely attempting the rescue of his brother, also fell in. The father of the boys saw their mishap and hurried to their aid, but just as he reached them the struggling boys sank for the last time. The bodies were recovered.

 

From the collection of The Comtesse DeSpair
The 1892 Morbid Scrapbook

Accidental Death!, Crushing Death!, Death!

Fearful Death Of A Young Wife

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Obituary, Norfolk, VA – June 22, 1869

The wife of Hezekiah Greenlee, of Mason County, West Virginia, was instantly killed a few days since, under circumstances of a most distressing character. In company with her husband she was returning home by a near path through the woods from a neighbor’s where her husband had been at work during the day. They were walking hand in hand, not dreaming of any danger, when a dead tree they had just passed suddenly fell brushing the shoulder of Greenlee and striking his wife on the top of the head, crushing her to the earth so that her remains could scarcely be recognized as those of a human being. Strange to say Mr. Greenlee was not injured in the least, further than being stunned for a few moments. The evening was a calm one, and it is supposed that the tree, which was rotten at the roots, gave way from it’s own weight. Mrs. Greenlee had been married a little less than six weeks.

 

Donated by Cupid In Hell

Accidental Death!, Crushing Death!, Death!

Crushed to a Shapeless Mass

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Latin Reader – January 18, 1886-1890

 

Crushed to a Shapeless Mass.

Doylestown, Jan. 18.—Edwin Beck, aged 20 years, who has been working in the Belgian block quarry near Quakertown, was instantly killed yesterday, eight tons of rock having fallen upon him. The rock was thrown 100 feet from an adjoining quarry. Beck saw the large stone coming and started to run, but tripped, and the rock fell upon him, literally crushing his body to a shapeless mass..

 

Unceremoniously Stolen From Alf

Accidental Death!, Crushing Death!, Death!

Crushed By A Large Stone

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Culled from the 1892 Morbid Scrapbook

CRUSHED BY A LARGE STONE.

While a gang of men were engaged in digging a culvert on Kitcher’s lane, near Carpenter street, Germantown, yesterday, a large stone became loosened and fell. All the men escaped except Antonio Ameras, thirty-five years old, of 4683 Morris street, who was seriously injured. He was taken to the Germantown Hospital, where it was found that he had sustained fractures of his nose and thigh and serious internal injuries. It is feared that he will not recover.


From the collection of The Comtesse DeSpair
The 1892 Morbid Scrapbook

Accidental Death!, Crushing Death!, Death!

Another Victim of the Elevator

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Steele Scrapbook – January 23, 1886

ANOTHER VICTIM OF THE ELEVATOR.

YORK, Pa., Jan. 15.–August C. Abe, a carpenter, aged thirty-two years, was this evening helping to put the finishing touches to a new elevator at C. A. Baylor’s cigar factory, and was standing at the bottom of the elevator shaft, the car being forty feet above him at the fourth floor. Proprietor Baylor stepped on the car, which caused the cable to slip from its temporary fastenings, and it descended with great celerity to the bottom of the shaft, carrying Mr. Baylor with it. He escaped serious injury, but Abe was killed.