People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1896 — Iceboat Smashed to Pieces. [ARTICLE]

Iceboat Smashed to Pieces.

As the result of an iceboat race at St. Ignace, Mich., Sunday the iceboat Majestic is a wreck and four men are badly hurt. The boat was going forty miles an hour with Capt. Collins at the tiller, when all control of her was lost and she suddenly veered up toward the docks. Capt. Collins was badly cut about the head; Peter J. Vigeant had four ribs broken and suffered internal Injuries; John Blake was thrown fifty feet and the other man escaped with bad bruises. Four boys on the boat were slightly hurt.