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The New Hampshire Gazette
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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A chimney collapse at Isaac Silver's house near the village killed a six-year-old boy instantly and another child drowned in the cellar; Mrs. Silver and two other children were injured but rescued amid two feet of water.
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the chimney of the house in which Mr. Isaac
Silver resided, about a mile and a half from this
village, fell in and one of Mr. Silver's children, a boy
about six years old, was instantly killed. Mrs.
Silver, was sitting upon the hearth, with three
of her children about her, the eldest about nine
years old, when the sudden falling of the chim-
ey carried them all into the cellar, where the
water was two feet deep, Mrs. S. escaped
with slight injury from the falling bricks and
succeeded in rescuing two of the children, who
were both more or less injured: but the third
was covered with the rubbish and literally
buried in the water, from whence its lifeless
body was taken about half an hour after the
accident happened. The falling of the chim-
ey awakened the youngest child about a year
old, which was asleep on the bed. from which
it fell, crawled to the edge of the floor and
was taken down and held in the arms of Mrs.
S. who was standing in the water. She
succeeded in raising the oldest to the floor
who was sent to alarm the neighbors, but a
traveller passing by, assisted her and the chil-
dren from the cellar. The water had under-
mined the arch on which the chimney stood,
and which it seems, had rested on a single stick
of timber, the sudden breaking of which precipi-
tated the chimney and the family together in-
to the cellar.—N. H. Pat.
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one boy about six years old instantly killed; another child (the third in the cellar) lifeless body recovered after half an hour, buried in water and rubbish; mrs. silver escaped with slight injury; two children more or less injured; youngest child about a year old unharmed.
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The chimney of the house where Mr. Isaac Silver resided fell in, instantly killing one of his children, a boy about six years old. Mrs. Silver, sitting on the hearth with three children (eldest about nine years old), was carried into the cellar with two feet of water. She rescued two injured children but the third was buried in rubbish and water, its lifeless body recovered after half an hour. The youngest child, asleep on the bed, fell but was held by Mrs. Silver. A traveler assisted. The chimney rested on a single stick of timber undermined by water.