Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1909 — GAME WARDEN DROWNED; LOSES LIFE WHILE HUNTING. [ARTICLE]

GAME WARDEN DROWNED; LOSES LIFE WHILE HUNTING.

Clem Sigler of Terre Haute Falls In the Kankakee Bfver When Seized , With Heart Disease. - ' J" Falling over backward into the water of the Kankakee river, apparently after being seized with a heart attack, Clem Sigler, aged 40, 824 Wabash avenue, Terre Haute, a deputy, game warden, was drowned Saturday afternoon and the circumstances were at first considered mysterious. Sigler, with E. H. Cadle, of Orleans, another deputy game warden, had gone to Baum’s Bridge on a hunting expedition. They stopped at a hotel in Porter county, just across the river. The two men constructed a “blind** on a knoll of land, from where they, expected to do some duck shooting. About the noon hour Cadle and a boy from the hotel went to dinner, leaving .Sigler. When they returned almost tv/o hours later they found Sigler’s body in the water. Sigler had been eating lunch and his mouth was filled with bread when he was found dead. It was learned that Sigler was subject to heart attacks, and it is believed one of the sinking spells seized him, causing him to fall backward into the water.

Coroner W. J. Wright, who investigated the death, says it is uncertain whether Sigler died from the heart attack or by drowning, but he believes the latter was the cause. The body was taken to Wheatfield and will be shipped to Terre Haute. Sigler was a barber by trade, and leaves four children, his wife having died some time ago.