The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-07-06
SEARCH FOR BODY,
But FIND ANOTHER
YOUNG DOERR's CORPSE CARRIED
THIRTY MILES BY RIVER.
Searching Party at st. Peter Was
Dragging for the Remains of Bannon,
4 a Hospital Patient, When Body of a
Boy Appeared on the Surface-o Other
Tragedies in the West. .. -
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st. Peter, Mimi, July GA searching party
dragging the Minnesota river in quest of tho
body Of James Bannon. the hosnitnI, natient
drowned last Friday, made gruesome find near
| the North Western railway bridge yesterday at
ternoon. The searchers recovered the floating
corpse OF boy IL Or 18 years of age, sup
! posed to be that Of Heine Doerr, who was
drowned at Mankato last week. The body was; In
Dad state OF decomposition and had evidently
been IN the water fully week -
me dead boy was son Of Henry Doerr, for
merly Of this city. and was born here Last
thursday, with dozen or more companions of
his own age, he went in bathing in a creek
that empties into the Minnesota. Haunting his
companions to follow him, he swan out into the
river, was seized with a cramp and disappeared
DAY later James Bannon, patient at tho
st. Peter state hospital, was drowned In the
minnesota river here Searching parties have
since patrolled the banks of the stream in search
OF his remains, and 1t was one of these that
! FOUND the boys body. Following the winding
course of the river, 1t is fully thirty miles to
the point where young Doerr lost his life, and 1t
IS strange coincidence that his corpse should
nave come to the surface opposite the town
| where he was born - <,.1';'-
DR.. G. F. Tuomy Of the hospital STAFF inn
mediately notified Chief Donahue OF Mania 70
OF the hnd1nS of the body, but by the merest
accident the toy's father was in St. Peter at the
time. ! He has been nearly frantic since the
Tragedy and when taken to the morgue to view
| the remains lie was loath to identify them
| Owing to the condition Of the body this is
| not surprising, but no other drowning has been
reported this spring, and the authorities in
\ this city and at Mankato think that no mistake
has been made. = =
| LIVINGSTON, MONT.-Word was received
from Immigrant Gulch here last night that Judge
Chtord, for many years highly respected resi-
dent of Park county, had committed suicide by
| drowning in Emigrant creek late yesterday at
ternoon He was 80 and had resided in Montana
since the early sixties. He had served as as
SCISSOR Of Park county for several years and was
probate judge here for years.
OF late years he had been engaged in mining
In Em1grant Gulch, but with poor success, which
preyed upon his mind, and is believed to have
prompted his rash deed r.,s, ,.9..s
PRINCETON. MINN.-sevards Larson, about
70 years OF age. was drowned while swimming
In Elk lake with two companions. The boys
had boat in the middle OF the lake from
which they dove. Larson misjudged his ability
| to swim and sank to the bottom. His com
pan1ons were unable to rescue him.
HELENA, MONT.-Robert Ross aged o. lost
MS life In a large artificial lake near the East
Helena smelter last night while swimming with
a companion. He was overcome with cramps and
sank He had sister in Minneapolis
GRAND RAPIDS, MINN.-Andrew Swanson.
son OF Swan Swanson Of Princeton, was drowned
IN the lake at Bovey yesterday afternoon while
swimming. = : =