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The Providence Journal, And Town And Country Advertiser
Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island
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In Peekskill, New York, on January 6, a mother suffers the tragic loss of two young children in rapid succession: one falls into boiling water and dies, another is fatally kicked by horses while running to fetch the father, and she discovers the infant she hastily placed on the bed has died from a neck injury.
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NEW YORK, January 24.
On the 6th inst. the following accident happened at Peekskill, in this state. A woman sitting near the fire side, having her youngest infant in her lap, a second playing near her, it accidentally fell into a large kettle of boiling water. The mother, in haste to preserve her child, threw the youngest on the bed, and on lifting the other out of the kettle found it lifeless. She then sent the eldest, a boy of about nine years of age, to call the father, who was at work in the barn; the boy on his way thence ran among a number of horses, who kicked out his brains... The mother in the mean time went to the bed side to take up the infant, and to her inexpressible grief found it deprived of life, having in her hurry thrown its neck across the head board of the bedstead.
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Peekskill, New York
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January 6
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A mother near the fireside loses her second child when it falls into boiling water and dies; in haste, she throws her youngest infant onto the bed, later finding it dead from a neck injury against the bedstead; meanwhile, her eldest boy of nine, sent to fetch the father from the barn, is kicked to death by horses.