From the Waverly Democrat, May 17, 1973. Wartburg student and volunteer fireman Jim Longmuir, 21, drowned while trying to rescue Wartburg student Lowen Anderson, 20. Here Anderson is being pulled up to safety at the flood gate. Longmuir got tangled in a rope underwater near the floodgate. Additional photographs and resources can be found at the Waverly Public Library on the local and family history page http://www.waverlyia.com/public-library/research/local-and-family-history-collection.aspx Accession No. 15A0008
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From the Waverly Democrat, May 17, 1973. Wartburg student and volunteer fireman Jim Longmuir, 21, drowned while trying to rescue Wartburg student Lowen Anderson, 20. Here Anderson is being pulled up to safety at the flood gate. Longmuir got tangled in a rope underwater near the floodgate. Additional photographs and resources can be found at the Waverly Public Library on the local and family history page http://www.waverlyia.com/public-library/research/local-and-family-history-collection.aspx Accession No. 15A0008