Two Vermonters Killed in Separate Accidents
Two brief but fatal accidents from the same week of Vermont news: a fall down stairs and a falling tree.
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Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 13, 1885 · Page 1
1 min readDavid McCollis of Barre, 70 years of age, fell down stairs, Tuesday night, and was killed instantly. It is supposed that the fall was caused by a fit.
In North Chittenden, on Monday, a German named Steele was caught by a falling tree and crushed so that he lived but a few hours.
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