Danbury Times

Melancholy Accident. The following particulars of a deplorable accident which took place in Pittsburg, the extreme Northerly town of this State, on Saturday, the 30th ult., we learn from Mr. Bedel, delegate to the Convention from Colebrook. Four boys, two sons of Elijah Sawyer, and two of Charles Currier, were sent into the woods after some cedar timber. Not returning at night, search was made for them, when their team was found near Moose pond, so called, but no further traces of the young men were discovered. On the next morning the search was renewed, and the bodies of all were taken from the water, having been drowned in the same spot, about fifteen rods from the shore. This pond is somewhat more than a mile from any house and the precise manner in which these youths perished is not known. In crossing they had tried the thickness of the ice with their axes as they proceeded, and after once breaking through, had broken the ice for two or three rods towards the shore before they went finally to the bottom. The youngest was 12, and the oldest 22 years of age.—[New Hampshire Patriot.