Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

On the 6th instant the following accident happened at Peekskill, in this State:--A woman sitting near the fireside, 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 bedside 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.

We have not been able to learn the name of this unfortunate family, but the truth of the above is unquestionable.