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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 11 Jul 1996, p. 5     ...

Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 25 Jul 2002, p. 12     ...

Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 18 Jul 1996, p. 5     George W. Peterson, age 85

Lake Shore News (Wilmette, Illinois), 18 Jul 1912, p. 5     Three Evanston men, George B. Currier, J. Edgar Lee and Pratt Underwood, narrowly escaped death when the "Leda," Currier's yacht, became disabled eighty-five miles northeast of Milwaukee. The trio we

Lake Shore News (Wilmette, Illinois), 29 Aug 1918, p. 1     Three unidentified men in a rowboat off Canary Cottage beach at Lindenavneu and the lake, were rescued from drowing by C. A. Hartig, lifeguard along the beach at "Dingee"

Wilmette Life, 7 Oct 2010, p. 25     A tugboat pulling two barges ran aground off the Glencoe shore. Three people were rescued by the Coast Guard when the boat began taking on water Saturday.

Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 18 Jul 1996, p. 5     ...

Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 11 Jul 1996, p. 14     Full article available at Wilmette Public Library.

Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 8 Jun 1933, p. 1     Wilmette coastguardsmen have rescued seven persons from drowning within the past two weeks. Among the rescued were William Akely [Akeley ?], 615 Lake avenue; George Twitchell, 221 Dupee place; Regina

Bob Seidenberg, Wilmette Life, 28 Aug 2008, p. 10     Two Evanston residents were pulled from Lake Michigan south of Dempster Street Tuesday after their boat was hit by a "rogue wave."

Routliffe, Kathy, Wilmette Life, 18 Aug 2011, p. 5     Two men in a sailboat narrowly escaped injury when wind flipped the craft and threw them into the water near a breakwall.

Routliffe, Kathy, Wilmette Life, 18 Aug 2011, p. 5     Wilmette Park District commissioners have decided to revisit restricting bad-weather-sailing after a sailing accident off the village's beach on Sunday morning.

Lake Shore News (Wilmette, Illinois), 29 May 1912, p. 10, column 1     ...

Lake Shore News (Wilmette, Illinois), 15 May 1912, Section 2, p. 2, column 1     Section 2

Lake Shore News (Wilmette, Illinois), 13 Aug 1914, p. 1     Capt. Jensen of the United States life-saving crew recounds stories of reports from people on the shore of "boats in distress". Describes usual procedures for investigating trouble.

Lake Shore News (Wilmette, Illinois), 24 Sep 1914, p. 1     The steamship George F. Baker of The Pittsburgh Steamship Company, loaded with iron ore, went aground off the Winnetka lake front on Friday in heavy fog. It was floated again Sunday noon to continue

Irv Leavitt, Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 12 Jul 2007, 5, 7     For 90 minutes foundering boaters on Sunday could not draw the attention of the U.S. Coast Guard, Wilmette Park District employees or people on shore. One of the boaters attempted to swim to shore bu

Lake Shore News (Wilmette, Illinois), 2 Jan 1913, p. 2     Description of event that took place some years ago when Col. J. J. Astor jeopardized his yacht, Nourmahal, and his passengers, including his son, Vincent, in order to allow his dog, Betsy, to have a

Wilmette Life, 28 Sep 1939, p. 25     William Smythe, 43? Kenilworth avenue, Kenilworth, R. H. Walpole of Bloomington, Ill., and Miss Annie Farleigh of Lousville, Kentucky, were rescued Saturday afternoon by a crew from the Wilmette coas

Lake Shore News (Wilmette, Illinois), 15 May 1912, Section 2, p. 4, column 3     The first rescue of the season was made by the members of the Evanston life saving station Monday morning when Arthur Birch and Donald Clancy, students at Northwestern, rowed out too far from shore.