People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1893 — THREE CHILDREN PERISH.. [ARTICLE]

THREE CHILDREN PERISH..

They Are Drowned in a MUI Pond Near Wautoma, Wls. Wautoma, Wig.,. Sept. 5. George Lorey’s family, started for churah 4 miles west of here Sunday and when passing a mill pond an attempt was made to back.the wagon in to soak the wheels. The bed of the pond sloped abruptly a short distance fro in shore, and the team backed quickly infc> 16 or 18 feet of water. Mr. Lorey sprang , but of the water and saved his wife and one child, but two of his daughters, aged 11 and 13, and Johnnie Nelson, aged 13. years, were drowned before they coTtid.be rescued. The team waa. also drowned*.