Newspaper: McDow Child Drowns in Well; Webster Par., Louisiana
Submitted by: Lora Peppers <lpeppers@ouachita.lib.la.us>
Date: Dec. 1999


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The News-Star
Wednesday, Dec. 1, 1909
Page 5, Column 4

UNUSUAL TRAGEDY

Baby Accidentally Thrown Into Well and Drowned. Minden, La., Nov. 30- While an eleven-year-old son of William
McDow of  this place, was holding a fourteen months old sister in his arms near a well late this evening a younger 
brother pushed the former suddenly against the well curb, jolting the baby from his arms into the well and it was 
drowned before assistance could be rendered. A colored man went down and rescued the baby.