Mercer County IL Archives News.....Shocking Calamity. 1861
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The Daily Dispatch, Feb 14, 1861 1861
Seven persons were drowned on the 11th instant, while attempting to cross a 
small stream in Mercer county, Illinois, in a sleigh. The party consisted of 
an old man named Minty, Mrs. Mary Haydes and two children, Mrs. Elizabeth 
Hodson and two children, and Mrs. Burgo and two children. Minty saved himself 
and one of Mrs. Hodson's children by swimming. Mrs. Hodson remained in the 
sleigh holding her other child an hour and a half on the side-board until 
assistance came. Both were taken out alive, but the mother died shortly 
afterwards.


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