Terrible Yachting Accident

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 46, 26 September 1885, Page 3

Terrible Yachting Accident

Particulars hare just been received of • terrible accident to a yach in; party on an American Take. - The information, was received from Minneapolis, Minnesota. It appears that the steam yacht Minnie Cook, with 10 peraoni on board i?a.« cruising in Lake Minnetoka, when :a sadden and terrific «torm burst o»er the water. The atramer had get a consider able' way out before sbe.wa* overtaken b? the wind -indeed, she was lost sight ef, aad not being «een after the storm .Sub raided, U was feared she had gone down. Thir fear was confirmed by the arrival of a beatman who had lieen out in his yawl during the heart weather. Se. sudden was die sterm that he could not get to a place- of shelter., and 'lay : down in th§ bottom of his -boat for safety. In ah instant the"? waves., became fearfully turbulent, and his little craft was:-'. shot wpward* like a rocket. The ffisn had just pntieutly seen the Minnie Cock. and afterwards heard a piercing . scream as if from a woman in the-y^Miit: On looking toward* the spot the UtUe iteainsir and the occupants were newliere. to be geen ; «be had gone down With all on Itmird- Among the. occupants ot. the ■ieanter the ex-Mayor lUnd, his Sfc iohi and nephew. The "Wg*b ■■bsequently dragged, and seren ef the hodiM neoverad*