An appalling accident happened a short time ago at Arisaig by which two young girls lost tlieir lives. Actuated by curiosity, they went to see a steam threshing machine at work. During the temporary absence of the person iu charge one of tile girls seems to have gone so near the machine that her clothes were caught by the machinery and she was dragged in. Her companion, in attempting to extricate her, was also drawn in. The altered noise of the apparatus brought the man in charge to the spot, but, being stunned at the frightful sight that met bis eye, he was unable for a moment to stop the machinery. It was then found that the unfortunate girls were literally tom to fragments. The deceased were named McDonald and Mc'Dougald respectively, and were each about fourteen years of age. They were both the daughters of widowed . mothers,
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Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 250, 27 July 1872, Page 3
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