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Buffalo Commercial
15 October 1921

         Buffalo Captain's Body is Found
         
         Special to the Buffalo Commercial:
         
         Tonawanda, Oct. 15. - Assessor Barclay M. Potts,
       master of Tonawanda Lodge 247, F. & A. M., was
       notified yesterday that the body of Captain KNUT
       PETERSON, Buffalo, lost with other members of his
       crew when the barge Miztec went to the bottom of
       Lake Superior Friday May 13th, off White Fish 
       Point, has been found. PEDERSON was a member of
       Tonawanda lodge and a former resident of Tonawanda.
       The body will be brought to Tonawanda for burial.
       The local lodge of Masons will have charge of the
       funeral.
         The body of Captain PETERSON was the last of the
       drowned crew to be recovered. He was found by an
       Indian Fisherman near the Soo Islands, Lake Superior.
       Identification was established through papers found
       in his pockets. Captain Pederson's family lives at
       205 Goodell street, Buffalo.
       
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