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Last year I was asked if I could find any contemporary newspaper reports on this accident because there is a memorial stone near the location of the accident on the present A82.
There has now been an article in the local paper but the burial place of John McDonald is not known.
I had a look on DeceasedOnline but could not see it, wondering if anyone here has any records they can check?
The Scotsman - Monday 03 December 1900
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FATAL CYCLING ACCIDENT ON LOCH LOMONDSIDE.
News has reached Alexandria of a fatal cycling accident which has occurred on the shores of Loch Lomond between Ardlui and Tarbet. A man named John M'Donald, who was gamekeeper on Sir James Colquhoun's estate, had been in the habit of going once or twice a week to Tarbet, a distance of twelve miles, for provisions. On Thursday forenoon last he set out as usual on his bicycle, accompanied by his dog, to Tarbet, where he arrived safely. He did not leave Tarbet for the return journey till late on Thursday night. He was last seen alive at ten o'clock that night on the road home, accompanied by his dog. All seems to have gone well till he came to a bridge on the roadside. In the darkness he had not seen the wall bounding the bridge, as he went crashing against it with terrible force, being flung from his machine over tho bridge, a depth of 30 feet, into the burn which runs under the bridge. He must have been going at a great speed , as he was terribly lacerated. The first notice of this fatality was received on Friday morning by a tramp who had seen the body of a man lying in a barn with a dog by his side, and the police were then instantly communicated with. The body was conveyed to Tarbet.
From British Newspaper Archive
BRISCOE - Bolton, Heaton Norris, Rochdale, Oldham, Chadderton, Blackburn
POUNDER - Middleton Tyas, Kirkbymoorside, Stokesley, Lambeth, Bolton, Newcastle on Tyne, Leeds
HAMMOND - Quebec, Laverton, Masham, Grantley
SWALES - Laverton, Masham
O'Shea - Quebec
PARRY - Caerhun, Deiniolen, ClwtyBont, Brynrefail, TalySarn, Brynrefail, Bethesda
EVANS - Llanfihangel Bryn Pabuan, Maesmynis, Dowlais, Stockton on Tees, Hartlepool, Trealaw
HARVEY - Trentham, Sheriffhales, Llanfyllin, Llanferres, Minera