Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-11-06
The BODIES FOUND
Recovery OF the Remains Of Two
Travelling Men From
Clear Lake.
sunken Boat Found and the
Bodies We're Grappled Near /.
by Late Yesterday.
Both Men Lived at Mason City.
Story OF Their Tragic
End.
,ecial to Times-Republican.


Mason City, Nov. 6.--The bodies o
1 George T.. Montgomery ami n. S. Bairt
1 were found at the bottom of Clear LAX
about o'clock yesterday afternoon
Both bodies were found near where thu
sunken boat, in which they went out t
4 hunt ducks Saturday afternoon, hat
! been found few hours earlier. TIL,
4 leen were drowned a quarter of a mil,
east from the little moss beds of
1 Dodge's Point The White Wings
manned by Capt. Ed Green, AIDE Ran
/ dali and Frank Mccormack, was an
chored there and with graphing hook:
| the work was begun when their labor:
were rewarded by the hooks catching IL
| Montgomery's clothing, and the remain:
were carefully taken into the boat
Shortly after the Hope, in which were
John Young and others, dragged its an
Choir and IN lifting it to make a better
| hold they found attached to the anchor
I the body of Baird, the other missing man
/ The bodies were found within twenty
| feet of each other. They were taker
ashore at once and placed In charge OF
| A. l.. Noel, the Plano representative
! who will await the wishes of the rela-
| tives of the deceased.
The lake yesterday was literally COW
| cred with boats containing parties
searching for some sign of the boat or
bodies of the two missing since Satur-
day. 1t is estimated that close on zoe
1,.I, ,,...1,
which was begun before daybreak in the
morning.
AIDE Randall and two other hunters
who had not heard of the accident of
Saturday at 1 o'clock came in from the
lake in Il naptha launch and reported
that they had almost run over u boat
which seemed to have been capsized
and anchored. 1t was in the center
of the lake toward the north end and
they said they could easily locate it.
Not having known of the object of the
search they did not pay any attention
to the boat only to congratulate them
selves that it had not capsized them.
A large party accompanied them back
to the spot for the purpose of identi-
flying the boat and making u further
vigorous search for the bodies of the
missing men.
Not in many years has the sym
pathy of the whole city been aroused
as it was over the mysterious disap-
pearance to which only the stormy
waters of ordinarily calm Clear Lake
was witness. "A special train on the
electric line Tuesday took party of
sixty of the anxious friends of the
two men to the scene. Up at the lake
the graphing hooks and lines We're I'M
tangled and cleaned after an idleness
of many years and thorough search
Of the bottom of the lake was prose-
cuted.
On last Saturday afternoons cleo
trio train to the lake at 1:1o was
merry party of hunters and pleasure
seekers. Among them were e. j. Nit
chell. Dan Dixie, s. r. Miles, j. Bullen,
of Chicago, Mr.. Bennett, OF Chicago,
j. E. Decker, VIM. HOLMAN, G.. l..
Montgomery N. S. Baird, Mr.. and Mrs.
Harvey Baxter and Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
TUrnure and daughter. OF these the
merriest, 1t seemed, were Montgomery
and Baird. They We're thoroughly
equipped with hunting supplies and and
intended to stay for couple or three
days shooting.
AT the Clear Lake docks of Green &
Young, the boatmen, they met Charles
A. Stratton, the proprietor Of the Grand
View hotel, located on Stevens Point,
across the Lake. Landlord Stratton
had come over in a buggy to get his
mail and supplies. The missing men
gave him a case about six feet long
by two feet deep and wide, containing
wooden decoys borrowed from ]. W.
Konvalika, of this city, and likewise
their grips containing extra ammuni-
ton and clothing. They instructed
him to take these to the hotel and to
save them a room. They said they
would stay on the lake for the late
shooting and would be in for a late
supper.
In the meantime Messrs. Bennett,
Decker, Miles, Bullen, and McMorrow
had prepared to start for the hunting
grounds in a sailboat. The were &C.
ing to tow Montgomery and Baird a
ways with their hunting boat but as
the two men We're not yet ready they
set cut. Shortly afterwards Capt. e.
Green set sail from the dock with
Messrs. Baird, Montgomery, Dixie and
Mitchell. They took in tow Sam Dut-
rows wooden hunting boat in which
Montgomery and Baird proposed to
spend the evening. When opposite the
big mossbeds which lie a mile and q
half from the town shore, the hunting
boat was dropped off with the two men
in. They pulled over toward the north
shore with the announced intention OF
hunting there under the shelter of q
high bluff known as Parker's Point, I'M
til dark. That was the last seen by any
one of either boat or occupants. The
hunting boat. while an extraordinarily
worthy seafaring craft was to heavily
loaded with the weight of the large men
as were Baird and Montgomery and on
~ Il little of the cockpit showed above
the water SO heavily was the vesse
laden down. In the boat beside the
men We're their fowling pieces. some
wooden decoy ducks and a pack oil
twenty-four canvas decoys borrowed
that afternoon from Charles Knutson OF
the lake. Late Monday night the pack
age of canvas decoys was found washed
to the shore. II, was thought by mer
familiar with the ways of the lake that
the men had reached the north shore in
safety had there the perfect calm af-
forded the water by the overhanging
cliff, anchored their wooden decoys and
that the squall broke with its sleety
rain. With their shelter they would
scarcely notice the heavy wind which
was beating the center of the lake
into froth of whitecaps yet left