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A Singular Fatality In A Swamp

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Parent Issue
Day
3
Month
January
Year
1879
Copyright
Public Domain
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A singular fatality lately happened in I a swamp near Trenton, N. J., to an oíd man named Charles Yopp. It appears that Yopp went out to gather watercresses, accompanied by a little dog. On the following afternooii the dog's i persistent barking attraeted the attention of Mrs. Gilbert, whose husband has a small farm bordering on the swamp. She went to the spotwhence the sounds jjroceeded, and was homfied to discover I the head and shoulders of a man, who j was evidently exhausted and unconscious, protruding from the black mud. One hand clung to a tuft of grass and the other was extended. The wonian went after her husbamd, and the two, with other help, returned to find the man sunk still lower and still sinking. To extricate him was a work of great difflculty, and took several hours' time, but it was finally aeoomplished by means of fence-rails and ropes. The man was then takon to a house, and, in an hour, he revivod suffioiently to teil, in a broken way, the story of bis adventure. He was attempting to get hold of a fine; buneh of water-cresses, when he dropped his basket into what looked like a filled-up ditch. He jnmped in after it and sank instantly, and, to his amazoment f ound that something scemr d to bo drawing him still further down. His body was paralyzed by fear, and he cried for help with all his might, but in vain. At length, being still powerless to move, he abandoned himself, as he supposed, to death. Night soon came, however, and with it a slight revival of his strength. He had now sunk to his hips, and, although he feit stronger, there was nothing within reach upon which lie could lay hands. He thought he Bank at the rate of an inch au hour. The night seemcd fearfully long, and, bef ore it passed, he feil into a stupor, and knew no more until he found himself in the hands of his rescucrs. He dïed two days aftorward from ezhaustion.

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Old News
Michigan Argus