Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1909 — GET CAUGHT IN WHIRLPOOL [ARTICLE]

GET CAUGHT IN WHIRLPOOL

Three Indianapolis Men. Have Narrow Escape In St. Joseph River. South Bend, Ind., June 11. —Three Indianapolis men had narrow escapes from drowning, and the canoe which they occupied is still missing. The men are W. M. Gallagher, Gordon Coldwell and Sydney Davis, telephone company employes. Strangers to the river, they attempted to make the passage without the guidance of any pilot light. A whirlpool caught the canoe and flung it broadside against a pile, capsizing it Coldwell floated 400 yards down stream before he managed to grasp an overhanging limb of a tree. Gallagher was thrown against a pile and clung there with one hand. Davis was held between some piles and the canoe. Notre' Dame students rescued the men.