Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-11-25
BODIES ARE RECOVERED.
Victims of the Palmer Lake Acct dent
Taken From Their Watery Grave
Last Sunday.

Last Sunday after noon the bodies of /
the three unfortunate men, Horace w. |
Bent. Frederick Anderson and Law
renee Gale, who were drowned in Pal |
mer lake on the evening of Friday, |
November 18th, were recovered by a |
party OF seachers who had for over a
week been dragging the lake for them.
This is one OF the saddest accidents it |
has been our lot to chronicle for some
time and is made doubly so from the
fact that through it death has cast it's
shadowy folds over three families
Horace Bent has for many years owned
and operated a summer resort on Ten
derfoot lake about twenty miles from
State Line. Il appears that on the
fateful day on which the tragedy oc-
cured MIR. Bent, in company with his
engineer, Frederick Anderson, ana
| Lawrence Gale, who was a guest at his
resort, went over to Chas. Bent's sum-
mer resort on Lake Mamie, eight miles
east of Tenderfoot lake in steam
/ launch after portable saw mill. 1t
was late in the afternoon when the
party started home, and after eros sing
! Big, or Pfister lake, the launch was
landed and the party started for home
by means of portage across to Palmer
lake intending to cross that lake in
canoe and then portage across into
| TenderfoOt lake. Just how the lament
able accident occurred will never be
learned. When the party did not re-
turn home in due time searchers were
started out and it was then that the
yacht was found tied on the shore OF
Big lake. Further search discovered
the canoe, paddles and caps of the un-
fortunate men on the shore of Palm err
lake. In the meantime the lake had
frozen over and nothing could be done
towards recovering the bodies until the
ice was broken up. It required two
days for this, and after nearly week
steady work dragging the lake from
one end of the lake to the other by
means of large trolling hooks oo6d the of Al =.
les We wHr@S vas found first, and then that of
Gale. Some 10 or Is rods nearer shore
the body of Bent was found. The lake
had reached the freezing point and it
is i'm probable that any man could have
swan for any great distance without
being overcome by cramps. Yet Bent,
it appears, made valiant struggle for
live, and under ordinary circumstances
/ would have succeeded in reaching the
shore The only theory as to the cause
of the accident seems to be that the
canoe, heavy laden as it was, became
unmauageable and capsized, a watch
found on the person Of Anderson had
stopped at sixteen minutes to seven,
and it is probable that it was shortly
before that time that the accident oc-
cured. A coroners inquest held Mon
day by Justice Walters returned YER
diet of accidental drowning.
Horace Bent was married man OF
twenty-nine years of age, He is surVl-
we'd by widow and two small children.
The funeral will be held at the nome OF
| Chas. Bent on Lake Mamie today,
we're burial will also be made.
Gale and Anderson were both single
men and resided, the former at Cleve-
land Ohio, and the latter at Virgins
town, this state. Their remains were
taken to their respective homes Wed
nesday for burial by their relatives.