TWO HUNTERS DROWN WHEN BOAT UPSETS
Former Haynes Man Was One of Victims
Chester Clark, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Clark of Rogers City, and a companion, Robert Radka, lost their lives in Lake Huron last Friday, presumably when their boat capsized as they were bringing the carcasses of several deer from one point on Drummond Island to their hunting camp.
Chester Clark was 28 years of age and was born in Haynes where he lived until his parents moved to Rogers City some years ago. He is survived by his parents and one sister.
Up until Wednesday noon the bodies of the two men had not been recovered, though every means of search, including a diver and nets, were used. The following account of the tragedy is given:
Friday, November 7, a party of Rogers City men including Radka, Clark, H. H. Lehndorf, William Radka, Paul Wenzel, C. A. Vogelheim, Charles Hornbocken, Hal Whitely and John Hilla, left for the deer hunt on Drummond Island. They had been very successful and were planning to return home last week end.
About 7 o'clock Friday night, Radka and Clark left camp in a sixteen foot boat with an over-board motor, to go to a point three miles up the shore from the camp, which was on the northeastern shore of the island, to bring back the carcasses of five deer which had been killed and hauled out to an accessible point on the shore. The lake was calm as a mill pond and a bright moon shone. It was expected that the trip would consume not more than two hours. When 11 o'clock came and the two men were still missing, their companions organized for a search.
They hunted all through the night and at daybreak found the overturned boat a little distance from shore with one of the deer still fastened to it. The other deer were found on the beach. No trace of the bodies was found.
At 10 o'clock a. m. Saturday, Whitely, Lehndorf and William Radka left the party for Johns Wood, Drummond Island, from where word of the tragedy was wired home. The three men went to the mainland and drove home, reaching Rogers City at 4 o'clock Sunday morning.
Radka and Clark were men of the highest standing in their community and a pall of sorrow has been thrown over Rogers City by their tragic deaths.