Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1911 — Fails from Pier and Drowns. [ARTICLE]

Fails from Pier and Drowns.

Michigan City, Ind., May 26.—Willie Bilski, the eleven-year-old son of John Bilski, drowned by falling from one of the piers near the harbor en trance. After attending a church serv ice he and another bdj' went fishing. While seated on the pier young Bilski felt that his prayer book was about to drop from his pocket and when he grabbed at ft he lost his balance and fell. His body was recovered twenty minutes afterward.