Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1912 — SEVEN DROWN IN FOX LAKE [ARTICLE]

SEVEN DROWN IN FOX LAKE

One Woman and Six Men Are Caught by Storm While Rowing In Launch. Fox Lake, 111., May 10. —The body of Mrs. Mabel Hansen, twenty-five years old, of Chicago, who, with a party of six persons, were drowned in a storm which swept Fox Lake, was recovered and searching parties today were dragging the lake for the bodies of the other victims. The other persons believed to have been drowned are* Herman Kuhn, nineteen years old, restaurant keeper, Ingleside, Ill.; George Russell, thirtyfive years old, liveryman. Ingleside, BL; Jacob Hoefer, twenty-five years old, Desplaines, BL; Michael Klunder, twenty-four years old, Chicago; Louis Truschke, twenty-six years old, saloon keeper, Chicago; unidentified man. twenty years old. The party left the Lippincott hotel on Fox lake to go to another hotel in a sixteen-foot steel gasoline launch owned by Kuhn. Five minutes after leaving the hotel wharf persons on the shore heard cries for help and a boat was sent to the rescue. No trace of the boat or the victims was found.