Kendall County IL Archives Obituaries.....Bloom, Israel 1908
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Cook County Herald, Jul 10, 1908
Cook County Herald, Arlington Heights IL
July 10, 1908

Two men were drowned in shooting a Fox river dam at Yorkville. A companion in 
the hazardous feat escaped. The bodies of the drowned, Israel Bloom, aged 25 
years, and Louis Spink, 18 years, were washed ashore the next morning. Cries 
for help brought scores of people on their way home from church to the river 
bank Sunday night about 8:30 o'clock, but the darkness baffled the rescuers. 
Joseph Rubenstein, the man who escaped, fought so desperately to escape he was 
taken with a hemorrhage on reaching the shore and nearly died. He told the 
crowd that his companions had drowned and then staggered home. Fifteen persons 
have been drowned shooting dams in Fox river in the last forty days.


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