People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1893 — THEIR BOAT CAPSIZED. [ARTICLE]

THEIR BOAT CAPSIZED.

Two Wisconsin University Men Drowned in Lake Mendota—A Third Rescued. MADISON, Wis., May 22. —On Saturday W. B. Strong, of Whitewater; D. B. Smith, of Fort Atkinson, and A. E. Coe, of Barron, students at the state university, started to cross Lake Mendota in a sailboat. When a mile and a half off the opposite shore the boat capsized in the strong gale which was blowing. All three managed to get hold of the boat, but Strong slipped off half an hour after the accident and two hours later Smith followed him. Coe clung to the boat, which drifted for three hours before he was sighted by persons on shore. A boat was sent out and brought him to the land much exhausted. He was well taken care of and is out of danger.