Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1911 — State and General News [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

State and General News

LAKE MICHIGAN WATER Rendered Unfit To Drink By a Powder Mill Explosion. Ludington, Mich., March 16.—The water in Lake Michigan has been dirty and unfit for use as drinking water since the explosion of the powder mills at Pleasant Prairie, Wis., last week. Marine men are of the opinion that the violence of the vibrations may have been sufficient to bring to the surface the bodies of the men who went down with the Pere Marquette car ferry No. 18 off the Wisconsin shore la.st falk A sharp lookout for bodies is being kept.