Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-03-05
TIE MYSTERY DEEPENs.

Disappearance ofTwo Men Reported
to Have Been Drowned in the Mis-
souri, and the Report Afterwards
Disputed.
There is a deepening mystery connect.
ed with the disappearance of Lewis r.
Wenrick aud Henry j. Neisiens and
their relatives are mapifesting great
anxiety over their whereabouts. On the
26th OF January thu following para.
graph was printed in the Press and Da-
kotaian:
Parties who arrived last night from
the upper country bring information of
another drowning affair at Nlobrara of
which Lewis r Wenrick and Henry j.
Neisiens were the victims. 1t is stated
that these parties were crossing the
Missouri at the mouth of the Niobrara
on foot, about dusk Sunday evening,
and that they walked into an air hole
and were swept beneath the ice and
were drowned. A man by the uams of
Mccoy is named as witness to the accl-
dent. He was standing on the bank of
the Missouri and saw Messrs Wenrick
and Neisiens walk into the air hole and
disappear. The bodies of the two IN
f~ortunates were not recovered. Wenrick
is described as a young man. his compan-
ion being more advanced in years.
Information OF the alleged drowning,
90 above announced, was furnished by a
young man who gave his name as John
SOD, q stranger in the city. Shortly af-
ter the publication of the paragraph
letters began TO come to the Press and
Dakotsian, some of them denying the
statement and Others asking for all the
particulars connected with the allega-
ton. Most of the letters were from
relatives of the two men said to have
been swallowed up by the Missouri.
Among the later letters is one from @. O.
Roberts, of Neleigb, Nebraska, under
dste of February 10th. The writer who
is q brother-in-law of Wenrick, says:
"Mr. Wenrick is my wife's brother and
she Is worried about him. She has heard
nothing from him nor about him. The
last heard from him he was registered i'll
the hotel at Niobrara."
A letter from Mary L. Nelsiens, of Ne
boville, Platte county, Nebraska, is dated
February Goth. She says Henry ].
Neisiens is her father and continues:
eve have not heard anything from
him since the report in your paper and
we are waiting a%nxlously for further
news.''
Howard a. Rowe. also of Neboyille,
III .-.-Ia, a. .or,o l,fo, ~
81 am boarding at the residence OF
Mr.. Neisiens and was there when he left
home January 20, 1886. and nothing has
been heard from hlm since January 23d
/ next heard of him by q report publish
ed IN your paper dated January 18th
which contained an account OF hit
drowning"
e. M. Newman, of Norfork, Nebraska
brother-in-law of Wenrick, wrote in re
gard to the matter on the Sd OF Feb
ruary, having just returned from Mo
brara, where he could learn nothing re-
garding the whereabouts of the two
men. A second letter from Mr.. New
man is dated February 2Sth and in it be
says:
1.-THE account you gave of the drown
ing seems to be more truth than fiction
as the parties have not returned and W,
can hear nothing of them. The partie
left here in the latter part of J%anuar,
and have not been heard of since. One
of them is a young nan and the othel
a married man and has a farm two
miles EAST Of my place, where his famil.
| y - =, rnpt1sH He Has in praffv fair cir
cumstances and has q wife and fv'
children. The whole thing is o myeter,
to me. J. was at Niobrara and the,
claim there that the parties did no
drown there"
One singular feature of the affair i
that the man johnson" ordered tn
Press and Dakotaian sent to the addres
of the writer of the foregoing letter an,
paid six months subscription thereon.
The continued absence of Messrs
Neisisns and Wenrick makes it eviden
that something unusual has transpire
to detain them and the fact that all in
yestigation has failed to reveal thei
whereabouts deepens the mystery c
their disappearance. The legitimat
conclusion ia that they have been FOUL
dealt with or they have gone away vo.
unfairly and arranged to leave benin
them the story of their drowning, Th
party by the name OF Johnson is th
only one who can clear up the myster
aud he is missing. Time may develo
an explanation of this strange case, bu
just now it ls under q cloud of uncel
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