The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-07-16
BOY FRIENDS ARE FAITHFUL
Members of High School Glass Take
Turns Patrolling Beach While Many
People Join in Search Reward Of
Twenty-Five Dollars offered for Body.

his life in the lake south of the city on
Monday afternoon, has not as yet been
recovered. All day Tuesday and today
people were out along the beach seek
ing for some trace of the body of the
drowned boy, but their search was IN
rewarded. The heavy northeast sea
which prevailed along the lake on
Tuesday was expected to bring the body
to the surface, and anxious watchers,
including many friends of the family
of the drowned boy, remained at the
beach long after nightfall before they
gave up the watch for some sign of
the body.
With the lake smooth today Captain
Fountaine and the members of the life
saving crew resumed their search for
the body. With five men and two boats
the lake was dragged for a distance of
mile and half north and south of
the place where the young man IS
thought to have been drowned. The
big stones on the bed Of the lake in
terfered with the dragging and many
graphing hooks were lost, but the life
savers continued the search during the
entire morning and even larger force
of men resumed the work this
afternoon.
II am not very hopeful that our
quest will be successful, = said Cap
tai. Fopntaine when he returned from
tn seafsil this morning. .3The condi-
ton Of the lake bed at this point is
such as to make graphing very unsat-
isfactory. I think that with the warm
water and the running of the sea that
the body will be brought to the sur
lace within a short time. IF it were
fcold weather the body might remain in
the lake for many days, but with the
warm weather / think 1t will certainly
come to the surface soon. The mem
bers OF the crew are willing to do
everything in their power to aid this
stricken family in the search for the
bady. My men will aid in dragging
nets along the beach this afternoon and
il it is thought best the crew will aid
in dynamiting along the beach in hopes
that the stirring of the water will
bring the body to shore. The only
trouble with using the explosive is the
fact that we do not know just where
the young man went down.
The members of the life saving crew
were not the only searchers along the
beach for the body of the drowned
boy. Many friends of the boys par
ents took up the vigil during the day
and members of the senior class of the
high school showed their loyalty to
their lost friend by having some one
continually on the beach. Captain
Fountaine had detailed John Mahan-
ey, the oldest and most experienced
member of the life saving crew, for the
beach patrol to seek the body and he
has had the aid of many other people.
A searcher on horse back has been pa
trolling the beach all the way from
Kenosha as far south as Winthrop
Harbor. The searchers seem to fear
that the body has been caught between
the big rocks on the bed of the lake
but even if this is the case it is
thought that the continually shifting
waters will soon release the body and
that it will come to the surface.
The long suspense of waiting for the
finding of the body has brought a new
sorrow to the membf of the stricken
Brown family. Mr.. Brown this morn
ing posted an u a reward for the
recovery of the body, but regardless OF
the offer of a reward everything posi-
bic is being done to locate the body.