People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1895 — Three Men Drowned. [ARTICLE]

Three Men Drowned.

Middleton, N. Y., Aug. 15.—A triple tragedy 7 occurred at Highland Lake, near Eldred, Sullivan county, on Monday night. William Taeterow, brother-in-law of Proprietor Devenoge, of the Mountain House, with W. Pilgrim, and another man whose name is unknown, was rowing on the lake in company with two other men, . The boat was capsized and the two strangers swam ashore. The other three were left struggling in the water. Tney were unable to reach the shore. The water is said to be 100 feet deep at this place and all efforts to recover the bodies have proved fruitless.