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Daniel F. Johnson : Volume 86 Number 1802

Date September 14 1893
County Kent
Place Richibucto
Newspaper Review

info The language of the text is the original used in the newspaper entry and as transcribed by Daniel F. Johnson. Records acquired by the Provincial Archives are not translated from the language in which they originate.

Last night as the steamer "Rustler" was returning from the picnic at Bartibogue, after calling at Chatham and Douglastown, and whn off Kerr's mill she ran too close, striking the lower corner of the wharf, the timber of which lifted and passed through the cabin in front of the paddle box, and passing through the cabin broke through the inner partition and struck the main steam pipe leading from the boiler to the cylinders and filling the boat with steam, scalding several persons. At the time of the collison the fireman and three young ladies were sitting in the cabin, one of whom was killed, another jumped overboard through the window and was drowned. The other had her arm broken and was slightly scalded. The boat in the meantime drifted out into the river where she was anchored. A number of passengers were landed at Kerr's mill wharf by DeWolfe and others in a row boat. The "St. Nicholas" shortly after came along and took off the remainder of the passengers and she took those landed by the boat at Kerr's mill, and proceeded to Newcastle. The "Rustler" was towed by the ferry boat late at night. The sufferers of the accident are: Killed - Miss MORRISON daughter of Charles MORRISON. Drowned - Miss LANDRY daughter of Jerome LANDRY; Arm broken and scalded - Miss DRISCOLL.

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