Heavy Horse Swims 150 Feet Under Ice

1920

Falls Into Hole and Emerges Where Cutters Are at Work

CAVOUR, Wis. -- While Edward Hess and others were cutting ice on the Peshtigo River, near here, where the water is about twelve feet deep, a horse weighing over 1,400 pounds started to walk across the river on the ice, about 150 feet from where Hess was at work.

The horse plunged into a hole in the ice and about one minute later appeared at the opening in the ice made by the cutters. It had swum the entire distance under the ice.

The animal was helped back to the surface of the ice, after considerable trouble and repeated efforts, and suffered no ill results from its unusual experience. It was soon put back to its work and is still performing its daily duties.

--The Saturday Blade, Chicago, March 27, 1920, page 9.

Note: Edward's name is given as Gess at first, then Hess.