Miscellaneous Newspaper Articles From the Past
Fayette County Pennsylvania
The Republican Compiler, Gettysburg, PA
March 3, 1819
Upwards of fifty people, we are informed, are sick in Bridgeport, Fayette county. This camality is attributed to the open winter which we have experienced. Several of the persons now sick are not expected to live. - Uniontown paper
Gettysburg Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania)
December18 1822 Page 4
Union, Pa., Dec. 3
Accident
On Monday the 25th ultimo, a six horse team, belonging to William L. Miller of New haven, in this county, took fright while standing in the streets of Connellsville, and ran to the fording of the Yough river, above the bridge, but the current being too strong, swept them down below the bridge, into water from 15 to 20 feet deep. The wagon being heavy sunk to the bottom and took with it the six horses, the two foremost horses, however, making several plunges, the hook of the stretchers coming loose they swam to shore, the other four were drowned. - Genius.
Gettysburg Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania)
December 25 1822 Page 3
Brownsville, Pa. Dec. 2
Drowned, in the Monongahela, opposite this place, on Wednesday night last, by falling from a boat, Mr. John McLaughlin, of Bridgepoint. His body has not yet been found. - Register
Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania)
March 31 1824 Page 3
Brownsville, March 8
On Saturday afternoon last, we were visited by an almost incessant rain, which continued until late last evening; and which, added to the snow that had fallen previous, has swelled every stream to their most extreme height. The Monongahela river commenced rising on Saturday evening and since that time until today at 3 o'clock, has risen upwards of forty feet, (plump.) from low water mark. It is now higher than it has been for upwards of 16 years. - Spy.
Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania)
July 21, 1824
Accident
A few days since a man was so dreadfully mangled in Fayette county that he is not expected to survive. It is stated that, in company with others, he dug a hole in the earth in which there was placed a large quantity of powder and a fifty-six pound weight. A match was then applied to the powder, when, we are informed, a fragment of the weight struck the unfortunate man in the face, and lacerated him in a most shocking manner. - Westmoreland Repub.
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