Fatal Accident
source date: 1890
availability: public-domain

ger eyes. The time was nearly up. Only seven minutes remained. At that moment John Fry’s horse dashed from the thicket and ran on the ferry boat, winning the wager of $200,000, and having five minutes to spare. From the May 23, 1890, Issue of The Enterprise Fatal Accident About six o’clock on Tuesday morning last, people residing in the vicinity of Bullard and Market streets were startled by loud cries of “Help! Help!”. On repairing to the scene of the commotion it was found that Mrs. Mary Brown, wife of Robert Brown, had fallen into the well on Market street, close by Wm. Mar- shal’s blacksmith shop. Mr. A. Harris, who was coming down Bullard Street, had seen Mrs. Brown slip and plunge headlong into the well, when about to lift out a bucket of water, and gave the alarm. The lady was taken from the well as quickly as possible and Dr. Slough was soon in attendance, but she was beyond human aid, as her skull was fractured in several places, and life was extinct before she was taken from the well. Shortly after waking in the morning, deceased had told her husband that she felt badly and had a strange presentiment of im- pending misfortune, to which he paid but little attention. Deceased was highly esteemed and much beloved by all her acquaintances and relatives, and many passed a sad day after the report of her untimely death. Mrs. Brown was 48 years old, she was buried on Wednesday. Funeral from the Catholic church of which she was a devout member.