THIS FROM AN ARTICLE ON THE DEATH OF DONALD REED - SEE FOR FULL STORY - Find A Grave Memorial# 124652424
Reed's Uncle Was Killed The Same Way
The drowning of young REED recalls a similar affair about 35 years ago in which his uncle, Dr. Edward Reed, lost his life in the feeder of the Delaware and Raritan Canal at Scudder's Falls, a few miles from the scene of the accident last night.
Dr. Reed was a brother of former Supreme Court Justice Reed, father of one of the victims of the present tragedy. The doctor was a druggist and physician and conducted a pharmacy at Perry and Southard Streets, where Charles H. Young now conducts a drug business.
Dr. Reed and Harry Paxon with two women took a drive up the river bank and turned into the back road. While driving along a newly whitewashed fence with a pair of spirited horses and a closed coach, a storm came up and in a flash of lightning against the fence frightened the animals. They shied over the bank, sweeping the entire party and vehicle into the feeder.
The driver was Charles Wooley, a well known negro coachman of this city. He with Paxon and one of the women escaped but Dr. Reed and the other woman were drowned in the coach like rats in a trap.
The horses were a valuable team and Wooley cut the harness, rescuing them while the occupants of the coach had a death struggle as the vehicle rolled down the bank and sank beneath the water.
Trenton Evening Times, Trenton, NJ 13 Jan 1912
THIS FROM AN ARTICLE ON THE DEATH OF DONALD REED - SEE FOR FULL STORY - Find A Grave Memorial# 124652424
Reed's Uncle Was Killed The Same Way
The drowning of young REED recalls a similar affair about 35 years ago in which his uncle, Dr. Edward Reed, lost his life in the feeder of the Delaware and Raritan Canal at Scudder's Falls, a few miles from the scene of the accident last night.
Dr. Reed was a brother of former Supreme Court Justice Reed, father of one of the victims of the present tragedy. The doctor was a druggist and physician and conducted a pharmacy at Perry and Southard Streets, where Charles H. Young now conducts a drug business.
Dr. Reed and Harry Paxon with two women took a drive up the river bank and turned into the back road. While driving along a newly whitewashed fence with a pair of spirited horses and a closed coach, a storm came up and in a flash of lightning against the fence frightened the animals. They shied over the bank, sweeping the entire party and vehicle into the feeder.
The driver was Charles Wooley, a well known negro coachman of this city. He with Paxon and one of the women escaped but Dr. Reed and the other woman were drowned in the coach like rats in a trap.
The horses were a valuable team and Wooley cut the harness, rescuing them while the occupants of the coach had a death struggle as the vehicle rolled down the bank and sank beneath the water.
Trenton Evening Times, Trenton, NJ 13 Jan 1912
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