Wisconsin Death Records

Adams County Wis. Press. Dated July 4, 1896

Three members of a picnic party were drowned in the Missouri River at Tekamah, Nebraska, Monday. The dead: Miss Essie Kelso, Sadie Reese and John Samson. The boat they occupied was swamped. But one member of the party was saved, he clinging to the boat. Their bodies were swept away by the strong current.