Edward Debor
Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh City Deaths
Name: Edward Debor
Event Type: Death (accidential drowning)
Event Date: 05 Aug 1889
Event Place: Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania
Gender: Male
Age: 9
Birth Year (Estimated): 1880
Father's Name: Charles Debor
Mother's Name: Catharine Debor
Reference ID: p 196 , GS Film number: 505843 , Digital Folder Number: 004672716 , Image Number: 00587
DROWNED BY A BALKY HORSE.
Pittsburg, Pa., Aug. 6. -- At 1 o'clock p.m., a wagon loaded with dirt was backed over a twenty-five foot embankment into the Monongahela River at the foot of South Thirteenth Street.
HARRY SIMMONS, aged twenty-three, was driving the horse, and he, together with EDDY DEPTOR, aged nine, and a boy of ten, unidentified, was drowned. Several other children were on the wagon, but escaped.
The horse balked near the dump. The driver tried to urge the animal forward, but instead backed the wagon over the embankment.
Eau Claire Leader Wisconsin 1889-08-07
Edward Debor
Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh City Deaths
Name: Edward Debor
Event Type: Death (accidential drowning)
Event Date: 05 Aug 1889
Event Place: Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania
Gender: Male
Age: 9
Birth Year (Estimated): 1880
Father's Name: Charles Debor
Mother's Name: Catharine Debor
Reference ID: p 196 , GS Film number: 505843 , Digital Folder Number: 004672716 , Image Number: 00587
DROWNED BY A BALKY HORSE.
Pittsburg, Pa., Aug. 6. -- At 1 o'clock p.m., a wagon loaded with dirt was backed over a twenty-five foot embankment into the Monongahela River at the foot of South Thirteenth Street.
HARRY SIMMONS, aged twenty-three, was driving the horse, and he, together with EDDY DEPTOR, aged nine, and a boy of ten, unidentified, was drowned. Several other children were on the wagon, but escaped.
The horse balked near the dump. The driver tried to urge the animal forward, but instead backed the wagon over the embankment.
Eau Claire Leader Wisconsin 1889-08-07
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