Albany NY Evening Journal
"TUESDAY EVENING. JUNE 14, 1836
Distressing Accident.—Andrew Bell, a farmer
from Charlton, Saratoga county, drove his wagon
on the Columbia-street bridge yesterday, but
finding a team approaching from the pier, which
he could not pass, backed his horses off on to
the dock, where, from fright or some other
cause, they got into the basin. Mr. Bell's son,
who was in the wagon, made his escape unhurt,
but his father was ran over by the wagon, and
trampled on by the horses, and so seriously injured
that he died in about three quarters of an
hour. Two children were also run over by the
same wagon, both of whom, we are informed,
died in the course of the night."

Saratoga County NYGenWeb, 2012