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Show BOAT CAPSIZES AT SWAN LAKE. Hanging to the side of a boat out In Swan Lake. W. H. Weever spent 13 hours In the water In a storm which raged over the lake, and which made the man's rescue Inifmssible from II o'clock Friday morning until 2 o'clock Saturday morning. The storm lashed lake held back the rescuers who at- , tempted to reach the man with rafts. Weever, with Emory Johns, was In a boat on the lake trying to locate , some guna that fell Into the water , some weeks previous, when a sudden , storm turned the boat over. Weever , being unable to sw im clung to the side of tho boat, while Johns swam to j shore and gave the alarm. It was not until three different rafts hud been ( built that the man was rescued. The j first two were blown astray and had to be abandoned, but the third one j got iu reach of him. j |