Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1898 — Five Drowned. [ARTICLE]

Five Drowned.

Chicago, Aug. I.—Death stopped the picnic of the Chicago Cloakmakers’ union at Columbia park. WillowSprings. Three rowboats capsized In the middle of. the Des Plaines river with 13 persons. The heroism of persons on the banks, who swam out and tarried as many as possible ashore, saved eight.