Angol is in grieve
"We are going to communicate our readers a painful news:
The apreciable gentleman Mr. Duncan Mac-Vicar, husband of Mrs. Dolores Vela, has entered suddenly and unexpectedly to that mysterious world where the dark shades of the death reigns.
We realize that it is a common happening; this is a sad notice, like death.
The incomparable friend, the ideal of a husband and family father, he surrendered his life in the city of Los Anjeles in the night of Saturday 12, without having more details than those that indicates the following telegram we received yesterday at 2 PM:"Mr Director of the Colono: Our inforgettable Mac-Vicar has let to accompany us, last night at eleven o'clock. Maximo de la Maza.His name was well-known and respected by all, because in his golden heart were nested all those virtues that makes a man a sublime being of honesty, charity and consolation.
The news of his death has taken the most bitter pain to all the people who had the happiness to know him.
Since his arrival to this country he knew with stoic patience the miseries of this immense field of bitterness and its beautiful......(paper sheet damaged, unreadable text).
Certainly not is covering the rigid body a cold gravestone of forgetfulness, the best of the friends, not at all, the memorial stone of affection; the one of gratitude and of memory will be his mortuary bed, the only offering that can be dedicated to the beings covered with the most holy gifts what the Creator devised for the earth.
The society of Angol, though by now absent, saw Mr. Mac-Vicar always like one of their distinguished members; his kind and enthusiastic spirit was not indifferent to the local advances of this city and in more than one occasion he lent his powerful squad for works that have given a manifest of culture to the city.
The misery never knocked in vain his doors, because so noble gentleman shared with pleasure his bread of each day with the needy ones..The pain that afflicts Mr. Mac Vicar's family today is very genuine, but it must be mitigated his presence of another's feelings, for, like we said, all the people who have had the pleasure to shake the noble hands of that singular friend, today they feel an intesive grief.
It's certain that an afflicted heart gets calm with other people's crying, because the pain has also his natural laws and this time, fortunately there are not that of egoism that impulse to stick us in its teeth with less rage and see that others are helping us to suffer.
The previous lines are only a pale reflect of the feeling that the death caused of Mr. Duncan Mac Vicar en our society. We hope that his appreciable family finds in them a small ??(unreadable).....in the tremendous misfortune that the ??(unreadable)...at least these are our sincere and ardent wishes."
(The newspaper "El Colono", August 14, 1893