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Show m IT MEETS Former Salt Laker Drowned in Lake Michigan Outing. The body of F. C Rinehart, formerly auditor of the Salt Lake office of the General Gen-eral Electric, company, was found last Thursday afternoon tossing on the waves of Lake Michigan. His absence had not been discovered by his friends . Mr. Rinehart, in company with a party of friends from Atlanta, Ga., secured a private yacht for a picnic outing on Lake Michigan. When out of sight of land engine trouble developed, followed by an explosion, which ignited a section of the hull. The fire alarm was souuded and the life belts were buckled on by members of the party. In a few moments the engine trouble was adjusted and the fire extinguished without doing material damage to the boat. Life belts were discarded. No one was found to be missing in the hurried check made, and the party completed the outing and returned to Chicago later in the day. Thursday a friend of Mr. Rinehart who had known him in Denver, was standing near a pier on Lake Michigan. He noticed a body in the water. With assistance he recovered the body, and found it to be that of his former friend whom he had not seen since the outing of Saturday, August lfj. It is believed by his friends that Mr. Rinehart must have jumped overboard unnoticed when the fire alarm was first given, and, being unable to swim, floundered flound-ered helplessly in the water until his lifeless life-less form was washed near shore last ThursdnV. The body will be sent to Denver, Den-ver, his "former home, for burial. |