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Two die in Vilas County boating accidents

By ASSOCIATED PRESS   Sunday, August 31, 2008 - 4:17 p.m.
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EAGLE RIVER

Two men are dead after separate boating accidents in Vilas County over the Labor Day weekend.

The Vila County Sheriff’s Office reported that a 38-year-old man from Wauwatosa died Saturday night in a tubing accident on Saint Germain Lake in St. Germain.

Three and a half hours later, a 55-year-old man from Port Edwards drowned after falling into North Turtle Lake in Winchester.

Deputies responded to the North Turtle Lake incident after a woman started yelling her husband had fallen overboard.

Sheriff’s Lt. Gary Peske says deputies were unable to immediately find him, but did find him Sunday morning.




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