ICE BOAT WRECKED GOING AT EXPRESS TRAIN SPEED
Crookston Lumber Co. Boys Have an Exciting Spill Damage Soon Repaired.
John Lucas’ big ice boat, “The Skud,” was “wrecked” early yesterday morning during the high wind, and “Luke,” Kimball Southworth and Hugo Scharf, who were enjoying a sixty-mile an hour ride, had an experience which they tell of with a liberal sprinkling of exclamation points. The boys had boarded the craft for a sail across the lake to their work at the Crookston Lumber company offices, and were headed toward the river on a port tack, when the stays on the windward side snapped and the heavy mast and sail fell to the ice. The mast is set in the big beam around which the cock-pit is built, and as it fell, tipped the beam and spilled the boys out of the pit. They were not hurt, as the pit is only a foot or so above the ice, but they slid for forty or fifty feet on their overcoats before the emergency brakes would work. A few hours work put the ice boat in running order again. (Dec 7, 1906)