A SAD TRIPLE DROWNING.
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Two Ladies Sacrificed Themselves Trying to Save a Little Boy.
Abbott, Tex., May 29. --(Special.) -- Yesterday evening about six miles west of here Mrs. Nannie L. Barr, her 4-year-old son and her sister, Miss Mattie L. Alexander, aged 14, were all drowned in a tank near the house. Circumstances indicate that Mrs. Barr and her sister had pulled their buggy out to the tank to wash the mud off and had taken the three children with them. The boy was playing in the shallow water and inadvertently stepped off into a deep place in the center of the tank, and the ladies were drowned in trying to rescue the little fellow. The water in this hole in the center of the tank is some eight or ten feet deep. There was no one near but a 5-year-old daughter and a 13-month-old child of Mrs. Barr. The little girl gave the alarm by her screams, when two brothers of Mrs. Barr rushed to the tank to find that all three were drowned. All three were buried in the Abbott graveyard this evening.
The Austin Weekly Statesman
Jun. 3, 1897 pg 7
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Two Ladies Sacrificed Themselves Trying to Save a Little Boy.
Abbott, Tex., May 29. --(Special.) -- Yesterday evening about six miles west of here Mrs. Nannie L. Barr, her 4-year-old son and her sister, Miss Mattie L. Alexander, aged 14, were all drowned in a tank near the house. Circumstances indicate that Mrs. Barr and her sister had pulled their buggy out to the tank to wash the mud off and had taken the three children with them. The boy was playing in the shallow water and inadvertently stepped off into a deep place in the center of the tank, and the ladies were drowned in trying to rescue the little fellow. The water in this hole in the center of the tank is some eight or ten feet deep. There was no one near but a 5-year-old daughter and a 13-month-old child of Mrs. Barr. The little girl gave the alarm by her screams, when two brothers of Mrs. Barr rushed to the tank to find that all three were drowned. All three were buried in the Abbott graveyard this evening.
The Austin Weekly Statesman
Jun. 3, 1897 pg 7
A SAD TRIPLE DROWNING.
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Two Ladies Sacrificed Themselves Trying to Save a Little Boy.
Abbott, Tex., May 29. --(Special.) -- Yesterday evening about six miles west of here Mrs. Nannie L. Barr, her 4-year-old son and her sister, Miss Mattie L. Alexander, aged 14, were all drowned in a tank near the house. Circumstances indicate that Mrs. Barr and her sister had pulled their buggy out to the tank to wash the mud off and had taken the three children with them. The boy was playing in the shallow water and inadvertently stepped off into a deep place in the center of the tank, and the ladies were drowned in trying to rescue the little fellow. The water in this hole in the center of the tank is some eight or ten feet deep. There was no one near but a 5-year-old daughter and a 13-month-old child of Mrs. Barr. The little girl gave the alarm by her screams, when two brothers of Mrs. Barr rushed to the tank to find that all three were drowned. All three were buried in the Abbott graveyard this evening.
The Austin Weekly Statesman
Jun. 3, 1897 pg 7
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Two Ladies Sacrificed Themselves Trying to Save a Little Boy.
Abbott, Tex., May 29. --(Special.) -- Yesterday evening about six miles west of here Mrs. Nannie L. Barr, her 4-year-old son and her sister, Miss Mattie L. Alexander, aged 14, were all drowned in a tank near the house. Circumstances indicate that Mrs. Barr and her sister had pulled their buggy out to the tank to wash the mud off and had taken the three children with them. The boy was playing in the shallow water and inadvertently stepped off into a deep place in the center of the tank, and the ladies were drowned in trying to rescue the little fellow. The water in this hole in the center of the tank is some eight or ten feet deep. There was no one near but a 5-year-old daughter and a 13-month-old child of Mrs. Barr. The little girl gave the alarm by her screams, when two brothers of Mrs. Barr rushed to the tank to find that all three were drowned. All three were buried in the Abbott graveyard this evening.
The Austin Weekly Statesman
Jun. 3, 1897 pg 7
Gravesite Details
Sister Nannie L. Barr 137512383
