The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-06-29
LONG SEARCH FOR BODIES
Chester Georgen and Carl wysocki
Victims of Double Drowning Which
Marks Tradegy Of Childhood Play
Time

IneTe was Tragedy VI chllunOou
aT the old brick yard on Fremont
avenue Just before noon Tuesday when
two ten-year-old boys went to sea in
tub and they never returned. The
remains of one of them, Carl Wysocl1i,
son of Peter Wysock, SGT Dayton
street, were recovered just after u
'cIock and the life savers, members
of the fire department and police of
ficers worked more than an hour be-
fore they recovered the body Of Ches-
ter Georgen, the son of Mr.. and Mrs
William Georgen, 456 Fremont aven
he, who was his companion on the i'll
Jared voyage Hundreds Of people
surrounded the pit at the brick yard
after the accident to the boys and
aided as best they could in the eff
forts that were being made to recover
the bodies.
The two boys were just about the
same age and they had been play
mates for some time. Just after IL
o'clock in company with Robert
Hughes and Peter Wysocki, brother
of one of the drowned boys, went to
play along the banks of the old brick
yard pit. There the deep black water
proved inviting for adventure and the
two boys who lost their lives found an
old iron tub in the rubbish piled along
the banks Of the pit and with two
pieces of board for oars they launch
ed out on the black dirty water. The
water in the pit is more than twenty
feet deep and the Hughes boy refused
to embark with them on the perilous
voyage. Later he told the story of
the drowning. "Carl and Chester, :"
he said, /" were sailing the old tub
and they had asked me to go with
them, but [ stayed back with Peter.
The tub was leaking and they had
gone but a short distance when it
turned over. Carl fell out on one
side and Chester on the other. Then
I ran away and told some people that
they were in the water.
At the place where the double
drowning took place the water is filed
with all sorts of refuse and it is not
thought that the bodies of the boys
ever came to the surface. AS soon
as possible the police department was
notified and the members of the fire
department. and of the life saving
crew were called to drag for the
bodies. The body of the Polish boy
was found in few minutes. It was
close to the south shore of the pit.
The entire pit was dragged for the
body of the Georgen boy and although
the officials rugged up raft with
which the dragging continued they
found nothing Of it until just before
two O'Clock this afternoon
The parents of the two boys were
grief stricken. In broken English the
father Of the little Polish boy declar-
ed that he had no idea that the boy
had been playing at the brick yard
and that he had repeatedly warned
him not to go near the water fearing
that he might be drowned. Georgen
was at work in one of the factories
when he heard Of the tragedy and he
fastened to the pit aud aided the
Others in searching for the remains.
Hundreds of children who had been
playmates 0 fthe boys, waited on the
banks of the pit in open mouthed
wonder as the men dragged for the
bodies. The body of the Polish boy
was removed to the Mischief and Stan
ton morgue and that of young Georgen
to his home.