July
5, 1916 – Mike Mylen, aged 20, of Cloquet, drown this
afternoon while swimming in the St. Louis River near the pulp mill.
Mylen, who was working nights at one of the local saw mills, was in the water with some of his companions when he got a cramp and sank. His body was recovered shortly afterwards by another swimmer who said that Mylen, when he struck the bottom of the river, had grabbed hold of a water soaked boomstick1 as he was still in that position when found. He has no relatives in this country, both his parents are living in Finland.
Funeral services will be held at the Hubbard undertaking parlors in the post office block Friday afternoon at 3. Rev. H. H. Parish will officiate and interment will be made in the Cloquet Cemetery by his friends.
The Duluth Herald; “Cloquet Man Drowns. Mike Mylen Loses Life While Bathing in St. Louis River.”; July 6, 1916; p. 5.
1Larger logs chained together to create a floating boom; https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/boomstickMylen, who was working nights at one of the local saw mills, was in the water with some of his companions when he got a cramp and sank. His body was recovered shortly afterwards by another swimmer who said that Mylen, when he struck the bottom of the river, had grabbed hold of a water soaked boomstick1 as he was still in that position when found. He has no relatives in this country, both his parents are living in Finland.
Funeral services will be held at the Hubbard undertaking parlors in the post office block Friday afternoon at 3. Rev. H. H. Parish will officiate and interment will be made in the Cloquet Cemetery by his friends.
The Duluth Herald; “Cloquet Man Drowns. Mike Mylen Loses Life While Bathing in St. Louis River.”; July 6, 1916; p. 5.
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