REVtEW SUPPtEMEWT# NEW ULM, MINN., WEDNESDA Y, APRIL lg, 183. DEATH by magic. Horrified at the impending near the mill nearly the entire day, doom of the two men, Mr. and that at dusk when he started Frank ran to the top of the river for home he asked Kosel and Milke IN THE COTrONWOOD. bank and called for help, to which to accompany him but they were Mr, Benzine promptly responded* determined upon staying an hour or with-4 It was a full minute before the two two longer and he came away Herman Milke and Ernst Kosel, Two unfortunate men re-appeared above out them. He had barely reached of New Ulm's Citizens, are the foaming water, but the under town when a messenger arrived announcing Drowned while Pishing. current had taken them so far out the drowning of the two into the stream chat the two men men. About nine o'clock last evening on shore were powerless to render r.he sad intelligence was brought to A large party of men went down any assistance, and Mr. Kosel again the city that two men had shortly to the river this morning to search sank beneath the water, without uttering after dusk been drowned in the Cottonwood for the bodies, but as the river is a cry, to rise no more. Mr. river near Frank & Benzine's high and the current swift it will Mike, who was an expert swimmer, mill. be a mere accident if the bodies are made a brave and noble battle for found before the waters subside In company with John Neuman, life, but the ice-cold water was somewhat. ye editor at once hastened to the more than human nature could scene of the accident, where several It is only very recently that Mr. long endure. He called lustily for men were found congregated discussing Kosel received word of the drowning help, while the swift current carried the sad event of the evening. of a brother in the ill-fated him down stream. Messrs. Frank We were spetdil) informed that ocean steamer Cimbria. and Benzine ran along the stream, the unfortunate men were named Mrs. Exner, the baker's wife, wrenching a pole from a fence as Herman Milke and Ernst Kosel, died last night. She was sick only they went, and calling to the drowning respectively, and that they had been a short time, and only within a day man to swim towards the shore. drowned while out on the river in a or two her complaint assumed a serious At one time Mr. Benzine waded boat. phase. The beneved husband out into the stream until the water We are indebted to Mr. Wm. has the sympathy of the entire community was up to his arm-pits, and he almost Frank, who is the only man that in this his very sad affliction. succeeded in touching him witnessed the accident, for the following with the pole, but too late the crnel particulars: Mr. Frank waters closed above the doomed says the men were engaged in sinking Mr. F. Behnke, one of our oldest man at the very moment when life a net close to the dam, and that, and most respected citizens, is very was within his grasp. The current unbeknown to them, the boat was low and his death, it is feared, is of the river is very swift and treach drawn into an eddy and the rear not far off. erous at the place of the accident at end swung under the water rushing this time of the year, and Mr. Milke The city couticil of Minneapolis over the dam. Instantly realizing was carried nearly three hundred on Monday night voted on motion their danger, the man next to the yards before he gave s,up the struggle. or one of the Democratic members stern called to the one in the bow Each of the drowned, men to raise the liquor license from $100 of the boat to pull on the net, which leaves a wife and three small children to $1,500. The Democrat of course command was promptly obeyed and in very destitute circumstances, only made the motion as a joke, but the boat was drawn out before much and they are worthy of the he was promptly taken at his word "water had been gathered. In another sympathy of all our citizens. and now the mayor alone can undo moment, however, the seething the joke, and the band has only waters again whirled the boat Mr. Neuman informs us that himself, just began to play. under the dam and the men and Mr. Kosel, Mr. Milke and a boat sank beneath the surface as if number of others had been fishing I