Mother and Child Rescued from East Aberdeen Slough
A young girl playing near the water falls into a slough, leading to a harrowing rescue by bystanders at high tide.
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Mrs. Edward McManemy and young daughter had a narrow escape from drowning on Wednesday morning. The little girl was playing on the sidewalk in East Aberdeen and in some manner fell into a big slough. Mrs. McManemy rushed to the rescue and jumped in after the little girl, but as it was high tide and the slough quite deep, was unable to get out, and but for the timely arrival of a couple of men, whose names are unknown, who succeeded in rescuing them at the last moment, both mother and child would undoubtedly have been drowned. It was a very narrow escape and an experience that Mrs. McManemy will never forget.
“It was a very narrow escape and an experience that Mrs. McManemy will never forget.”
Early Aberdeen was built on tide flats and crisscrossed by dangerous, deep sloughs that made daily life—especially for children—perilous. Modern urban development has filled in much of this landscape, erasing the geography of these common 19th-century water hazards.
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