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Big Rapids Magnet - October 17, 1879 - 

FATAL ACCIDENT - Our Stanwood correspondent writes us the particulars of a frightful 
accident that occurred near that village last Monday. A Mrs. Potter, who lives in the 
town of Austin, was coming to Stanwood on a load fo shingles, carrying a two months 
old babe in her arms, when the wheels on one side of the wagon dropped into a rut, 
throwing her off the load. In the fall, she dropped her child; it fell under the 
wagon, and a wheel crushed its head, killing it instantly. Within a quarter of a mile 
of the point where the accident occurred, lives a Mrs. Carmes, aged 93, who is 
remarkably hale and hearty for a person of her years, doing housework for a family of 
three - her son, grandson and herself.