Abbreviations used
Date January 15 1876
County Saint John
Place Saint John
Newspaper The Daily Telegraph
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 week two men wandered into the swamp at the Barrens, Georgetown Road, P.E.I. and when discovered their clothes were frozen to their bodies, and some of them had to be cut off. One of them named Duncan STEWART, an elderly man, died in 48 hours afterwards. The other is doing well. - P.E.I. 'Times'