Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1913 — DROWNED STUDENTS BODY WAS RECOVERED1 [ARTICLE]

DROWNED STUDENTS BODY WAS RECOVERED 1

Corpse of Leland Woolery Found in Bayou es Wabash River Near Detention Hospital. The body of Leland Woolery, the Purdue student who lost his life while making a brave effort to rescue two men marooned on the Brown street bridge at Lafayette, was found Saturday a short distance down the river in a shallow pool of water not far from the Detention Hospital. Emmet Stockton and Francis Houlihan found the body. Woolery was the only person to lose his life at Lafayette during the flood. In company with G. B. Ely, another student, he procured a skift and tried to reach the bridge to save two men. The skift capsize# as soon as it hit the current. Ely succeeded in catching hold of two electric light wires and pulling himself to safety. Woolery made a game fight to reach .the land, but no swimmer could control his movements in the swift current. Purdue students say they will erect a monument to the lad’s memory. The two men on the bridge were rescued by a launch.