Carroll County IL Archives News.....Lost in the Fog November 25, 1899
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Sabula Gazete November 25, 1899
Sabula Gazette, Sabula, Iowa, November 25, 1899.

LOST IN THE FOG

On Tuesday evening, shortly after five o’clock, John Welsh, of this city,
William Lang, of Miles, and others, started for the Maquoketa River in Mr.
Laing’s launch, the Bessie Laing, where the party, with the exception of Mr.
Welsh, intended to go into camp for a few days. They landed at Savanna and
although the fog was very thick at that time they did not apprehend any danger
from it and continued on their way up river. A short distance above Savanna they
became entirely lost, so dense was the fog, and cast their anchor until the
blowing of the curfew whistle at Savanna, when they weighed anchor and allowed
their boat to float downstream until they began to fear drifting against one of
the piers of the bridge. Anchoring again they blew a fog horn and shouted until
they attracted the attention of the Hon. George C. Heberling, and others, who
shouted themselves hoarse to enable those on the launch to reach the shore, they
being anchored about half way between here and Savanna. The party landed at the
place they started from at 10 o’clock, being out in the fog nearly five hours.


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