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From: Linda Darling <>
Subject: [Antigonish] Angus McDONALD, of Arisaig, d. Sept. 7, 1866
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 09:10:48 -0500

>From: James Custance <>
>To: nsroots <>
>Subject: [nsroots] Angus McDONALD, of Arisaig, d. Sept. 7, 1866
>
>DEATHS.
>
> On Sunday 7th inst, from injuries received on board the
>barque Rambler on the voyage from Pictou to St. John N B, Angus
>McDonald of Arisaig, County of Pictou, in the 19th year of his
>age. (Pictou papers please copy.)
>
>
>Fatal Accident.
>
> The bark Rambler, McKenzie, from Pictou, for St. John, N. B.,
>put into this port on Sunday morning for sugical aid to one of
>the crew who was seriously injured by falling from the main
>topsail yard. When forty miles off Beaver harbor two men named
>James Higgs and Angus McDonald, at work on the main topsail
>yard, while it was blowing very heavily, were thrown off by the
>flapping of the sail, and fell to the deck. McDonald was so
>severely injured that he died on Sunday evening, although
>medical aid was received as soon as possible after the arrival
>of the vessel in port. Higgs was slightly injured but able to
>attend the inquest which was held on the remains of his deceased
>comrade, before Coroner Jennings yesterday. The jury returned a
>verdict that the deceased came to his death from a compression
>of the brain, the result of a fracture of the skull caused by
>the fall as above described.
>
>
>Halifax Citizen, Tuesday, October 9, 1866

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