People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1894 — SKATERS DROWNED. [ARTICLE]

SKATERS DROWNED.

Three Yount; Hen Perish In an Airhole at St. Paul. St. Paul, Minn., Dec. 25. —A sad accident occurred at St. Paul park Monday afternoon, resulting in the death of Mathew Uhl, aged 19, and his two cousins, Frank and Alphonso Landers, aged respectively 19 and 22 years. At 2 o’clock Monday afternoon the youug men were skating on the river when young Uhl and Frank Lander fell into an airhole. Alphonso Lander went to the rescue, when he, too, was drawn into the river and drowned. Matthew is a son of President Uhl, of the German M. E. college, and the affair has cast a gloom over the community. All the bodies were recovered.