From the Eau Claire Leader, 29 May 1900:Drowned While BathingEighteen-year-old William Fountain Meets Death While Swimming in the Chippewa RiverWm. Fountain about 18 years of age, an employee of the paper mill, was drowned while swimming the Chippewa Monday afternoon. Wearing only a pair of overalls, he had swum from the Dells rafting shed, West side, to the opposite bank and soon thereafter started to swim back to the West side. A short distance out from shore he was seized with cramps. Boys...