Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-07-05
LAKES SAD RECORD.
Numerous Catastrophes are Recorded
Against the Madison Body
Of Water.

| The recent sad accident in Lake Menodta
at Madison, Wis, when Ada l.. Hawley
! OF Madison and George l.. Lohr of Mil
! Waukee were drowned, has reminded
residents Of the capital city of many
/ other similar catastrophies in years gone
| Dy. NO less than eight or ten drown
lngs have been chronicled during the
past twenty years.
The first student known to have been
drowned in the lake was Cyril II.
Bracket. His death occurred in No
yember, 1853. Young Hackett was
drowned while skating on the lake.
Many tragedies of recent years are
recalled, they being:
On June %, 1885, Frank White, a
student from Marshall, Mimi, was
drowned in about eighteen feet of water.
lie, with two companions, Howard
Greene and T.. b. Belden of Milwaukee.
Were out swimming when he was seized
with cramps and drowned, before his
/ comrades could assist him. His body
was recovered by a diver several days
! later.
In the spring of 1893 three students.
| A. Il. Coe, brother-in-law of \. f. Aus
tn, Jr., of Madison, f. f. White and
w. Is. Strong, were capSiZed in a sail
boat off Maple Bluff. Strong held to
the boat until his strength and endur-
ance gave out and Coe clung to the
craft and to Smith even after the latter
was dead from hanging head downwards
/ in the water. The accident happened at
noon, and about 4:30 in the afternoon a
sasrty righted the overturned boat and
rescued Coe, who was about ready to
loose his hold.
Skaters.Drowned.
Otto Lenzer, printer 26 years of
| age, was drowned in the lake on De
cember 81, 1895, while skating on some
| thin ice. There was a large crowd on
| the ice and many broke through, but the
case of Otto Lenzer was the only one
which resulted fatally. j. F. A. Pyre,
now assistant professor of English lit
| erature at the university, was rescued
! from probable drowning on this same
| day by John r. Richards of football
| fame. Ernest b. Smith, son of j. b.
Smith of Madison, and Maude Stephens,
| daughter of David Stephens, also broke
through, but were pulled out by Warren
| Hawley, the brother of Miss Ada l..
! Hawley, who was recently drowned.
| In the winter of '94-5. about New
| Years, three students sailed into open
water off Picnic Point and two of them
We're drowned.
| John Day, one of the most promising
/ athletes the university ever had, a great
! crew man and a fine debater. was
! drowned during the spring of 1896 by
/ the swapping of the shell in which the
crew was practicing near Picnic Point.
/ The accident occurred in the spring of
] his sophomore year
/ In 1893 Charles Freeman of Milwau-
1 kee was drowned while bathing in Lake
/ Mendoza.
Boats Capsize.
Three years ago this summer Charles
! Goldenberger. Jr, was drowned by the
J capsizing of a rowboat while out with
! two companions about a block from the
university boat house. The body was
/ found almost Immediately.
/ In March. 1890, Ralph Seligman. aged
I II years the son of Jacob Seligman of
Madison was drowned and his body was
not recovered for ten weeks.
! On September 6. 1896. John Norman,
! brother of City Clerk Q. s. Norman,
went fishing and the next morning the
young mans boat was found upturned in
/ the lake. The body came up after five
! or six days.
Seized with Cramps.
six years ago on the 2Sth of this
month John Spang of podgeville, IS
years of age. was drowned while bathing
near the assembly grounds. He went out
with a boat and il is thought that when
swimming some distance from the boat
a cramp seized him. The drowning oc-
Cured Mt / o'clock in the afternoon Of
Tuesday and the body was found less
{ imam -FOUR udNS ldttF, SdtuTuAA uipEulilS'
/ almost directly across the lake from the
place where the accident happened.
Much dynamite was used III the search
for the body and TO this is attributed the
fact that it came up in a few days.
During the assembly season of 1900
Miss Jennie Rupp. daughter of Anthony
A. Rupp, stewart of the Park hotel was
the victim Of a deplorable accident which
! all remember. Miss Rupp. together with
some girl friends and AleNius Baas to
whom the boat belonged. were run down
( by a steamer Miss Rupp was the only
occupant who was not rescued.