Two Minneapolis Girls
Plunge Over Dalles To
Tragic Death In River
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Children, 11 and 12 Years Old,
Drown In St. Croix Current
While Parents Look On.
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Younger make heroic effort
to save companion
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Taylors Falls Man Attempts Rescue,
Second Body Located After
All Night Serach
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Two young Minneapolis school girls plunged sixty feet to their death over the rocky cliff of the Dalles into the swirling St. Croix river, near Taylors Falls last Sunday, after the older, 12 year old, had slipped and clung to the edge of the precipice and her 11 year old companion attempted to rescue her, as throngs of people watched helplessly nearby.
The children were Evelyn Lillian Wampler, and Irene Aaby, both of Minneapolis. They had come to the Interstate Park with Evelyn’s father, James Wampler, and A. P. Anderson, to spend the day picnicking and seeing the points of interest about Taylors Falls. Mr. Wampler stopped his car at the Interstate bridge and the little girls immediately set about to explore the rock formations along the river.
As the Aaby girl reached out near the edge of the cliff for a bit of rock she lost her footing and slipped over the edge. While she clung to a small rocky ledge she screamed to her companion for aid. Evelyn immediately ran to assist her and grabbing her by one arm attempted to drag her to safety. The Aaby girl was too heavy for her and slowly they both slid over the cliff,
Evelyn fell safely on a rocky ledge after falling over half the distance but Irene dropped into the churning waters, where she immediately sank. Her companion seeing that she was drowning dove off the ledge and again went to her rescue as the hundreds of people who had gathered on the bridge looked on helplessly. The girl’s father stood along the bank, powerless to aid, as were the rest of the onlookers.
Evelyn swam to her companion and battled desperately against a strong raging current to swim ashore with her friend. Soon both were caught in a whirlpool and carried under the water. Lucius Tangen, a Taylors Falls young man, hearing of the accident, rushed to the river. He dove off the cliff and after many minutes of hard swimming recovered the body of Evelyn. He brought it ashore and went back into the water but was forced to give up the search for Irene’s body.
A searching party was immediately formed to search for the body. Dynamite charges were set off in the rocks about the Dalles in the belief that the body may have lodged in some underwater crag. A net was also stretched across the river near the Dalles.
At 9:30 a. m. last Monday the missing body of Irene was found, after more than 25 men had participated in a search which lasted throughout most of Sunday night. The body was found by Al Hill of Taylors Falls, who with a grappling device of his own makeup, dislodged it from a pocket 40 feet deep, between 300 and 400 feet down river from the spot where the girl first went down.
Officials of the Northern States Power Company aided in the search by controlling the flow of water at the power dam. and also furnished a powerful searchlight which enabled the searchers to work until midnight on Sunday night.
The bodies of both girls were brought back to their home at Minneapolis where funeral services were to be conducted.
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SOURCE: The Chisago County Press 24-Sep-1925, Page 1, column 1.
Note: The information above came to me from DaveVangsness
Plunge Over Dalles To
Tragic Death In River
---------
Children, 11 and 12 Years Old,
Drown In St. Croix Current
While Parents Look On.
---------
Younger make heroic effort
to save companion
---------
Taylors Falls Man Attempts Rescue,
Second Body Located After
All Night Serach
---------
Two young Minneapolis school girls plunged sixty feet to their death over the rocky cliff of the Dalles into the swirling St. Croix river, near Taylors Falls last Sunday, after the older, 12 year old, had slipped and clung to the edge of the precipice and her 11 year old companion attempted to rescue her, as throngs of people watched helplessly nearby.
The children were Evelyn Lillian Wampler, and Irene Aaby, both of Minneapolis. They had come to the Interstate Park with Evelyn’s father, James Wampler, and A. P. Anderson, to spend the day picnicking and seeing the points of interest about Taylors Falls. Mr. Wampler stopped his car at the Interstate bridge and the little girls immediately set about to explore the rock formations along the river.
As the Aaby girl reached out near the edge of the cliff for a bit of rock she lost her footing and slipped over the edge. While she clung to a small rocky ledge she screamed to her companion for aid. Evelyn immediately ran to assist her and grabbing her by one arm attempted to drag her to safety. The Aaby girl was too heavy for her and slowly they both slid over the cliff,
Evelyn fell safely on a rocky ledge after falling over half the distance but Irene dropped into the churning waters, where she immediately sank. Her companion seeing that she was drowning dove off the ledge and again went to her rescue as the hundreds of people who had gathered on the bridge looked on helplessly. The girl’s father stood along the bank, powerless to aid, as were the rest of the onlookers.
Evelyn swam to her companion and battled desperately against a strong raging current to swim ashore with her friend. Soon both were caught in a whirlpool and carried under the water. Lucius Tangen, a Taylors Falls young man, hearing of the accident, rushed to the river. He dove off the cliff and after many minutes of hard swimming recovered the body of Evelyn. He brought it ashore and went back into the water but was forced to give up the search for Irene’s body.
A searching party was immediately formed to search for the body. Dynamite charges were set off in the rocks about the Dalles in the belief that the body may have lodged in some underwater crag. A net was also stretched across the river near the Dalles.
At 9:30 a. m. last Monday the missing body of Irene was found, after more than 25 men had participated in a search which lasted throughout most of Sunday night. The body was found by Al Hill of Taylors Falls, who with a grappling device of his own makeup, dislodged it from a pocket 40 feet deep, between 300 and 400 feet down river from the spot where the girl first went down.
Officials of the Northern States Power Company aided in the search by controlling the flow of water at the power dam. and also furnished a powerful searchlight which enabled the searchers to work until midnight on Sunday night.
The bodies of both girls were brought back to their home at Minneapolis where funeral services were to be conducted.
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SOURCE: The Chisago County Press 24-Sep-1925, Page 1, column 1.
Note: The information above came to me from DaveVangsness
Two Minneapolis Girls
Plunge Over Dalles To
Tragic Death In River
---------
Children, 11 and 12 Years Old,
Drown In St. Croix Current
While Parents Look On.
---------
Younger make heroic effort
to save companion
---------
Taylors Falls Man Attempts Rescue,
Second Body Located After
All Night Serach
---------
Two young Minneapolis school girls plunged sixty feet to their death over the rocky cliff of the Dalles into the swirling St. Croix river, near Taylors Falls last Sunday, after the older, 12 year old, had slipped and clung to the edge of the precipice and her 11 year old companion attempted to rescue her, as throngs of people watched helplessly nearby.
The children were Evelyn Lillian Wampler, and Irene Aaby, both of Minneapolis. They had come to the Interstate Park with Evelyn’s father, James Wampler, and A. P. Anderson, to spend the day picnicking and seeing the points of interest about Taylors Falls. Mr. Wampler stopped his car at the Interstate bridge and the little girls immediately set about to explore the rock formations along the river.
As the Aaby girl reached out near the edge of the cliff for a bit of rock she lost her footing and slipped over the edge. While she clung to a small rocky ledge she screamed to her companion for aid. Evelyn immediately ran to assist her and grabbing her by one arm attempted to drag her to safety. The Aaby girl was too heavy for her and slowly they both slid over the cliff,
Evelyn fell safely on a rocky ledge after falling over half the distance but Irene dropped into the churning waters, where she immediately sank. Her companion seeing that she was drowning dove off the ledge and again went to her rescue as the hundreds of people who had gathered on the bridge looked on helplessly. The girl’s father stood along the bank, powerless to aid, as were the rest of the onlookers.
Evelyn swam to her companion and battled desperately against a strong raging current to swim ashore with her friend. Soon both were caught in a whirlpool and carried under the water. Lucius Tangen, a Taylors Falls young man, hearing of the accident, rushed to the river. He dove off the cliff and after many minutes of hard swimming recovered the body of Evelyn. He brought it ashore and went back into the water but was forced to give up the search for Irene’s body.
A searching party was immediately formed to search for the body. Dynamite charges were set off in the rocks about the Dalles in the belief that the body may have lodged in some underwater crag. A net was also stretched across the river near the Dalles.
At 9:30 a. m. last Monday the missing body of Irene was found, after more than 25 men had participated in a search which lasted throughout most of Sunday night. The body was found by Al Hill of Taylors Falls, who with a grappling device of his own makeup, dislodged it from a pocket 40 feet deep, between 300 and 400 feet down river from the spot where the girl first went down.
Officials of the Northern States Power Company aided in the search by controlling the flow of water at the power dam. and also furnished a powerful searchlight which enabled the searchers to work until midnight on Sunday night.
The bodies of both girls were brought back to their home at Minneapolis where funeral services were to be conducted.
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SOURCE: The Chisago County Press 24-Sep-1925, Page 1, column 1.
Note: The information above came to me from DaveVangsness
Plunge Over Dalles To
Tragic Death In River
---------
Children, 11 and 12 Years Old,
Drown In St. Croix Current
While Parents Look On.
---------
Younger make heroic effort
to save companion
---------
Taylors Falls Man Attempts Rescue,
Second Body Located After
All Night Serach
---------
Two young Minneapolis school girls plunged sixty feet to their death over the rocky cliff of the Dalles into the swirling St. Croix river, near Taylors Falls last Sunday, after the older, 12 year old, had slipped and clung to the edge of the precipice and her 11 year old companion attempted to rescue her, as throngs of people watched helplessly nearby.
The children were Evelyn Lillian Wampler, and Irene Aaby, both of Minneapolis. They had come to the Interstate Park with Evelyn’s father, James Wampler, and A. P. Anderson, to spend the day picnicking and seeing the points of interest about Taylors Falls. Mr. Wampler stopped his car at the Interstate bridge and the little girls immediately set about to explore the rock formations along the river.
As the Aaby girl reached out near the edge of the cliff for a bit of rock she lost her footing and slipped over the edge. While she clung to a small rocky ledge she screamed to her companion for aid. Evelyn immediately ran to assist her and grabbing her by one arm attempted to drag her to safety. The Aaby girl was too heavy for her and slowly they both slid over the cliff,
Evelyn fell safely on a rocky ledge after falling over half the distance but Irene dropped into the churning waters, where she immediately sank. Her companion seeing that she was drowning dove off the ledge and again went to her rescue as the hundreds of people who had gathered on the bridge looked on helplessly. The girl’s father stood along the bank, powerless to aid, as were the rest of the onlookers.
Evelyn swam to her companion and battled desperately against a strong raging current to swim ashore with her friend. Soon both were caught in a whirlpool and carried under the water. Lucius Tangen, a Taylors Falls young man, hearing of the accident, rushed to the river. He dove off the cliff and after many minutes of hard swimming recovered the body of Evelyn. He brought it ashore and went back into the water but was forced to give up the search for Irene’s body.
A searching party was immediately formed to search for the body. Dynamite charges were set off in the rocks about the Dalles in the belief that the body may have lodged in some underwater crag. A net was also stretched across the river near the Dalles.
At 9:30 a. m. last Monday the missing body of Irene was found, after more than 25 men had participated in a search which lasted throughout most of Sunday night. The body was found by Al Hill of Taylors Falls, who with a grappling device of his own makeup, dislodged it from a pocket 40 feet deep, between 300 and 400 feet down river from the spot where the girl first went down.
Officials of the Northern States Power Company aided in the search by controlling the flow of water at the power dam. and also furnished a powerful searchlight which enabled the searchers to work until midnight on Sunday night.
The bodies of both girls were brought back to their home at Minneapolis where funeral services were to be conducted.
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SOURCE: The Chisago County Press 24-Sep-1925, Page 1, column 1.
Note: The information above came to me from DaveVangsness
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