Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 92, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1909 — Two Boys Meet Death By Drowning In Cedar Lake. [ARTICLE]

Two Boys Meet Death By Drowning In Cedar Lake.

Within a quarter of an hour two Chicago boys met death by drowning in Cedar Lake Monday. William Littlejohn, 23 years old, employed by F. G. Hartwell & Co., came to the lake with a Baptist church picnic from Chicago, and fell from a boat which was toppled over by the waves from a steamboat. Mrs. Delue, of Chicago, and her little son, Max, aged 9 years, were standing on the Cedar Point pier watching the sheriff drag the water for Littlejohn’s body when little Max fell from the pier into fifteen feet of water and was drowned almost within the reach of the frantic mother. She could have saved him had she not fallen upon the pier in a faint. Both bodies were recovered.