The Ely miner., 1913-08-08

and both were thrown into the
water. Fortunately for Miss Haugen
her ankle became fastened in part
of the canoe and this saved her life.
Both screamed when the canoe
turned. Emmet screamed once or
twice and then went down. Miss
Haugen saw the bubbles come to
the surface, but Emmet never re-
turned. She continued to scream
and her voice was heard. At first
no attention was paid to it, but the
ring of help needed in the cry start
ed Phil Flint in his canoe for the
scene. Others then began to ar
rive and the girl was rescued and
taken to the boat house, but she
was not told of the fate of her
companion as it was deemed in her
condition to Withhold this until such
time as she was better able ia bear
the sad news.
Parties then formed to go and
find the body and this was kept
up until we'll toward morning of to-
day, Thursday, but with no success.
The exact point where the body
went down is not easily determined
as the night was not clear and the
distance from the shore such as to
prevent the exact marking of the
spot by therescuers of Miss Haugen.
However, the parties in the boats
did all they could with the hope
that perhaps it might be found in
time to use the pulmotor.
Miss Haugen has been here from
her home in Duluth visiting with
Mr.. and Mrs. E. J. Banick for some
time. Mr.. Coffey has been a lab
employe for some time and friend
of all who knew him. Hewa about
Fl years of age, and his parents live
in Ely, and these have been notified
of his death.
Small hopes are entertained today
(Thursday) of the recovery of
the body. The hat of young Coffey
was found floating but this will be
no clue as to the exact spot where
he went down as the wind was blow
ing and no doubt but the hat drifted
a long way.
Messrs. Flint and Scott heard
the cries from the E. E. Barnidge
home on the boulevard and started
to help. Mr.. Scott has a canoe
somewhere near the ski slide and
this was. launched with the two in
it. They had some difficulty in To-
eating the girl in the darkness but
finally did so. While Mr.. Scott
cared for the canoe Mr.. Flint dis
robed and went over the. side,
He is fine swimmer but in the
night it was best to be careful that
more did not drown. He swan to
the opposite side of the canoe and,
reaching over grabbed Miss Haugen
by the hand and pulled her into a
safe position on her own canoe.
Help was coming to the rescue
from the boathouse as rapidly as
possible and soon a boatload of men
were alongside. Miss Haugen was
taken to the boat house where Mr..
and Mrs. Cline cared for her.
Up to the hour of going to
press today the lake shows a small
fleet of boats out over the suppos-
ed spot where Emmet went down.
Messrs. Peterson and Goodwin
organized searching party, and
together with drags and graphing
irons they, with others are out gro
ping in the deep water patiently,
while parties on shore are trying to
locate the spot as nearly so as men,
ory serves where the awful affair
occurred. Two hundred feet is
used on each of the irons, and with
oars and boat is backward and for
ward in the hopes that that the
drowned man may be caught by
some of them.
For five hours today-Thursday,
nine boats together with thirty men
with drags drifted over the spot
where it is supposed Coffey went
down, but without success. At
one o'clock they began again to
search for the remains The men
are doing what they can against a
high wind, on the lake. At noon
Al Peterson rigged up water tele-
scope and this is being tried in the
hopes that the body may be seen.