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Detroit Free Press
Wednesday, 20 April, 1859

         Another Death by Drowning - Yesterday (Tuesday,) another
       fatal accident happened on the Tittabawassee. When the
       steamer Midland City was making her trip from Saginaw to
       this place, a passenger, MR. CHARLES WYMAN, a citizen of
       our county, while standing in the bow of the boat, was
       seized with a fit, and, falling into the river, was drowned.
       He was not seen at the moment he fell, but one of the men
       on a scow that was towed behind the steamboat saw him as
       he swept by with the current, and succeeded in stopping
       him for a few seconds by catching a boat-hook into his
       coat. The current, however, together with the progress of
       the boat, was so strong as to tear the hook out, and the
       body, sinking immediately, was lost sight of. He has been
       subject to fits for several years, and was advised to keep
       from the side of the boat, but, seeing no danger, ventured,
       and, as misfortune willed, was taken with a fit at that
       moment. The place of the fatal and melancholy accident
       was about four miles below Mr. Albright's brick yard.
        - Midland Sentinal
        
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