COTTON , Horace W.

Longmont Ledger (Longmont, Boulder County, Colorado) Oct 13, 1899 Page 3 Drowned at Terry Lake. About 9 o’clock Sunday morning Horace W. Cotton of Denver, was drowned at Terry Lake while duck hunting. A party from Denver, consisting of J. L. Scobery, J. G. O’Bryan, C. M. Kellogg, E. A. Smith, D. C. Fleming and D. H. Hilliard, members of the Colorado Gun Club, came to Longmont Saturday for the purpose of being at the lake early Sunday morning. After some sport before breakfast the party took a hasty meal and returned. Mr. Cotton was alone in a small boat and just how the accident occurred which caused the boat to upset, is not known; but Mr. Kellogg saw the boat after it had turned over and hastened for assistance, but no other boat large enough nearer than two miles to Highland reservoir, could be found. So after notifying Mr. Johnson who lived near by, the latter drove over and brought a boat with him, with which Nels and Andrew Hansen and Andrew Haukman went out to the place of the disaster as pointed out by Mr. Kellogg, and with grappling irons soon recovered the body. This was at 12:40. Mr. Cotton was weighed down with heavy hip boots and the pocket of his hunting coat was filled with shells, and never came to the surface after he fell in. E.G. Jones the acting Coroner, was notified and took charge of the body and shipped it to Denver Monday morning. Horace W. Cotton was 55 years old and kept a drug store, corner of West Third Avenue and South Tremont street. He leaves a wife and son.