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Batavia (Illinois) Herald, Oct. 10, 1895
Two Good Men Drowned
Luther L. Hiatt and William H. Grote, of Wheaton, Went Down In a Wisconsin Lake
A Big Fish Caused The Trouble, the Line Breaking and the Boat Being Capsized
(Aurora Beacon)
Dispatches in Chicago papers announce the death, by drowning, of Luther L. Hiatt and William H. Grote, two old and well known business men, men of Wheaton. The disaster occurred Saturday evening in Powers Lake, eight miles northwest of Genoa, Wisconsin. The two gentlemen named, together with Edgar Stephens, (brother of Isaac Stephens, of this city,) and C.K. Sanders, of Turner, were out together in a boat, fishing. As far as can be learned, a big fish took Hiatt's bait, and he called upon Grote to help pull in his catch. The strain was so great on the line that it broke, and the boat was capsized, throwing all four men into the water. Stephens and Sanders succeeded in swimming ashore but their companions went down to death.
Mr. Grote was a member of the firm of Grote ırothers, and had been in business at Wheaton since before the war. He was highly respected and popular.
Mr. Hiatt was one of the best known and most popular men in Northern Illinois. He was proprietor of the oldest drug house in Wheaton and about 50 years of age. He leaves a widow and three sons. For two terms he served the Republicans of the Fourteenth senatorial district in the Illinois legislature, and was nearly as well known in Kane county as in DuPage. He had an honorable war record, being a veteran, if we mistake not, of the 105th Illinois Infantry. AT the time of his death he was Commander of E.S. Kelley Post, No. 513, G.A.R. at Wheaton.
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