Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-05-25
WILLOW River
man BROWNS
Nels Nyrud, Garage Propri-
etor, Was IN Motor Boat
Which Capsized.
Tragedy Occurred Sunday;
Body Recovered Monday;
Funeral Today.

Sunday afternoon, Willow River EoSt
a good community man and home
builder. The community was shocked
when news spread of the tragedy.
Mr.. Nyrud in company with his SON
in-aaw, Arthur Liljedahl of Rutledge,
had left Willow River about o'clock
Sunday afternoon for little boat
trip on First lake, a mile east OF the
village. They drove in automobile
to which was attached a trailer that
carried the boat with cupboard motor
of IS horsepower capacity.
Arriving at the lake they were soon
enjoying a breezy boat ride with Mr..
Nyrud running the engine and doing
the steering. They had been in the
boat about half an hour when sud
denly it capsized. presumably from
striking their own waves. This was
about 3 o'clock Liljedahl chung to
the boat, the front end of which stuck
out of the water, it containing an air
chamber. Nyrud evidently got away
from the boat and was lost. The
capsizing occurred about 1000 feet
from shore and in IS feet of water.
D1I1flHt 10 LOCdte DVuSs
Fred Nortrup, a young man of the
community, and younger half-brotn-
er, Joe Zimmerman, sitting on the
shore and witnessing the Overturnlng
of the boat jumped into a nearby row
boat and hurried to the scene of the
tragedy. LGedahl was rescued but
Nyrud could not be located. Nortrup.
a good swimmer, dove and swan to
the bottom of the Is feet of water
several times but without locating the
body. Neighbors and friends soon
flocked to the lake after the alarm
was spread and efforts were made
to locate the body with drag hooks,
spoon hooks, poles and such rescue
materials as were quickly available.
The work was kept up until about
IL p. m. without success.
An airplane, piloted by Roy Duggan
of Rutledge, flew over the scene OF
the drowning several times during
the afternoon in an attempt to locate
the body, but the water was so stirred
I'D and muddy from the rescue work
that the bottom of the lake, which
at that point is weedy and muddy,
could not be seen. After midnight
when the rescue work ceased the
water cleared up again and in the
morning at o'clock, during short
period of sunshine, the body was
seen from the airplane. Mr.. Duggan
the pilot, was accompanied in his
biplane by Sheriff Hannes Rypkema
of Pine City, when the body was To-
Gated Monday morning. 1t was soon
removed from the waters and pre-
pared for burial.
Born i'm Norway.
Nels Nyrud was born in Eker, Nor
way, on March IA, 1887, being past
46 at the time of his sudden passing
His childhood and young manhood
was spent in his native country. He
was married there on Oct. 3, 1908, tC
Miss Nina Hansen. Mr.. Nyrud and
his wife lived so close together in
their childhood and youth that they
attended the same Lutheran church
were baptized and confirmed in the
same church.
About two months after marriage
the happy young couple set sail fol-
America-the land of opportunity
After a short visit in MINNEAPOLIS
they came to Willow River in Decem.
Der of 1908 and took up residence
there, having since resided in the
Pine county village. The first sever
years were spent in the blacksmith
business after which Mr.. Nyrud en-
gagged in the garage business under
the name of Willow River Garage
He built up a good business in goot
quarters, of late selling the Plymouth
car. His brother Ole Nyrud, followed
him in the garage business.
Aged Mother Survives.
Mr.. Nyrud is survived by the wife
and four children. The oldest of thu
children is William, %, who helped
his father in the garage business
then follows daughter, Mrs. Arthur
Liljedahl, (Martha) Rutledge; ant
twins, Harry and Thora, II, who art
at home attending the high school
Mr.. Nyrud's father died many years
ago but the aged mother in Norwa!
survives as does also five brothers
and two sisters. The four brother!
and one sister are in Norway. Thu
surviving brother in America is Oh
Nyrud, at Willow River, and the sis
ter is Mrs. Albert Johnson, Evanston
Illinois. She and her husband ant
their three boys are expected here TO
the funeral.
Funeral services will be held from
the home in the village today (Thurs
day. at 1870 p. m. and from the Pres
byterian church at 2 O'Clock, the Rev