Rochester, Monroe, NY
Union & Advertiser
Mon Oct 14, 1861
SHOCKING AND FATAL ACCIDENT AT BROCKPORT
--A sad accident, resulting in the instant death of a Mr. GUENTHER and the
serious injury of two other men, occurred at Brockport Saturday afternoon. The
deceased, it seems, had constructed a reservoir for fire purposes in that
village, and covered it with heavy flag stones. Saturday afternoon he, in
company with a brother and another man, whose name we did not learn, went into
the reservoir to see that it was properly finished. While there the covering
fell in and one of the flag stones struck the deceased on the back of his
head, breaking his neck and throwing his chin forward on his chest, crushing
it; his ribs were also badly broken. His brother was also injured internally
-- fatally it was at first supposed -- but we learn that he was this morning
more comfortable, and his chances for recovery very fair. The extent of the
injuries the other man received we did not learn. The deceased was a brother
of Capt. GUENTHER, at Camp Billhouse. The shocking affair cast a gloom over
the whole village.
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MAN OVER NIAGARA FALLS - Another of those dreadful accidents occurred
yesterday which make people shudder as they read the details. A young man
named DUNCAN, aged 19 years, employed as a clerk by S. T. MURRAY at Niagara
Falls, undertook to cross the river yesterday morning to Chippewa, where his
parents reside, and failing in the attempt, was swept into a watery grave.
He left the American shore a mile or more above the Falls, at a point where
crossing is often made, in a skiff, in which, under ordinary circumstances,
he could have gone safely to the Canada shore. It is supposed that one of
his oars broke, or the rowing apparatus in some way gave out. He was seen in
the skiff above midway of the river, drifting into the Rapid above the Horse
Shoe Fall, but no human power could save him from destruction. He passed
into the abyss and that is the last that was seen of him. One report has it
that he was seen to jump from the skiff into the water, but this may not
have been the fact. Destruction was equally certain in the boat or out of
it. What moments of torture the poor man must have endured as he was
drifting through those rapids, knowing, as he well did the frightful leap he
had soon to make into eternity !
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DIED
In this city, on the 13th inst., Henry McDONALD, aged 39 years.
-The funeral will take place to-morrow, the 15th inst., at 9 o'clock A. M.,
from his residence, No. 151 North Clinton street. Friends of the family are
invited to attend.
At Cartersville, Monroe co., N. Y., on Sunday, Oct. 13, of dropsy. Edmund
KENNEY, late of this city, aged 59 years.
-Funeral at St. Patrick's Church, on Tuesday morning, at 11 o'clock. Friends
of the family are invited to attend.
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