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High waves swamp sailors in Lake Michigan on Sunday

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Wilmette Life, 12 Aug 1999, p. 5
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Newspaper
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Keith Bowersox of 2144 Beechwood Ave., suffered a broken leg in a marine accident after high waves Sunday afternoon wrecked his sailboat on the beakwater at the entrance to Wilmette Harbor. Three other people were not injured: Candis Bowersox and her two nephews, Dustin Brown, 15, and Nick Brown, 13.

About twenty minutes later a 12-foot Sunfish tried to make the harbor. According the the Coast Guard, One of the two people aboard, Peter Ray, was thrown overboard by he waves. His 13-year-old son, Sam, took control of he boat and steered it away from the harbor, beaching it on the nearby shore. He was not injured. Peter Ray was rescued by the Coast Guard, and was not injured either. Photograph John Cossarek, chief of public security at the Baha'i Temple
Date of Publication
12 Aug 1999
Personal Name(s)
Bowersox, Candis ; Bowersox, Keith ; Brown, Dustin ; Brown, Nicholas ; Cossarek, John ; Ray, Peter ; Ray, Samuel
Corporate Name(s)
United States Coast Guard
Local identifier
Wilmette.News.282553
Language of Item
English
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