Berthoud Weekly Surveyor January 9, 2014 Page 5

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The thick ice that has formed on local lakes is certain to serve as an invitation to

Berthoudites who enjoy ice skating. In the com-munity’s early years winter sports were popular cold weather pas-times for local residents who hailed from other parts of the country where winters stayed cold and ice grew thick. In Colorado, where winter temperatures

fl uctuated, thick ice was not always the rule and that condition caused a skating accident at Sunnyslope Reservoir north of Berthoud that caused the deaths of two young men in December 1906.

Following the mishap, Berthoud’s newspaper reported, “This commu-nity was plunged into grief Wednesday when word was received over the telephone that Everett Munson and Lloyd Armstrong who were skating with a number of young companions on the lake on Mary D. Cole’s ranch had fallen through the ice and were drowned. The word was so shocking that it could hardly be believed, but it proved to be only too true. The call for assistance was quickly answered by our townspeople, but the lives of two of our brightest young men were

already lost, and the work of recover-ing the bodies was all that could be done. The awful affair occurred about noon, and from eyewitnesses we have been able to learn the circumstances as near as follows.

“About twenty young people were skating on the east side of the lake, all but fi ve of the crowds being girls. About noon they decided to quit for dinner, and Lloyd Armstrong and Albert Sampson started to skate to the west side where their rig was hitched. Sampson skirted closer to the shore than Armstrong, who was an expert skater. On the west side of the center of the lake one of Armstrong’s skates caught in an air hole and the boy fell heavily on the thin ice, the skate being torn from his foot and landing on ice that was covered with water. The boy removed the other skate and started to walk to shore, and the thin ice broke, letting him sink in ten feet of icy water.

“Everett Munson, skating on the east side of the lake, saw the accident and started on his skates to rescue his companion, but as he neared the danger point the treacherous ice gave way and he was beyond his depth in the water. Sampson, who had reached shore, started out on the ice toward Munson and when within twenty feet of him the ice broke and he was pre-cipitated into the water.

“Albert and Fred Hartford were the only boys left and they at once attempted a rescue. They procured a rope and ventured upon the ice as far as possible, but they could not reach Armstrong, who was struggling des-perately. At this instant Walter Hall, the painter, arrived on the scene and with the rope around his body made an attempt to reach Armstrong, but the ice broke and he was pulled out. In the meantime Sampson had told the rescuers to go for the others fi rst, but both Munson and Armstrong had disappeared beneath the water and the rope was fl ung to Sampson and was rescued in a half drowned and frozen condition. Word had been telephoned to Berthoud and a crowd

gathered quickly. A boat embedded in the ice on the east side of the lake was quickly brought to the spot, and the dead bodies of Everett Munson and Lloyd Armstrong were recovered where they were seen last by their compan-ions.

“The unbounded sympathy of the entire community goes out to the heart-broken parents. Everett was the only son of Mr. and Mrs. John Y. Munson, and was a model boy in every respect. Polite, generous, kind and giving, he had by his manly quali-ties endeared himself to everyone.

“When the accident oc-curred Mr. and Mrs. Munson and Dr. Harry Ingalls and wife, of Boulder, were somewhat east of town in their auto, and were fi nally notifi ed by phone at Johnstown.

“Lloyd Armstrong was the son of Mrs. Ada Biggs, who came here from Atkinson, Ill., last September in the hope of benefi ting her son’s health. His remains were shipped to his old home Thursday after funeral services conducted by Rev. Moffett at the M.E. church Thursday at 1 o’clock. The services were impressive and were largely attended. The pallbear-ers were the dead boy’s companions — Albert Sampson, Frank Saltzman, Albert and Fred Hartford, Will Brown

and Carroll Hendershott. Rev Moffett accompanied Mrs. Biggs with the re-

mains to Illinois.”The “lake on Mary D. Cole’s ranch,”

that is also known as Sunnyslope

Reservoir, is lo-cated about 1 1/2 miles north of Berthoud on the east side of Old Highway 287. The “M.E. church” or Methodist Episcopal church, where Armstrong’s

funeral ser-vices were

conducted, sat at the southeast

corner of the in-tersection of Fourth

Street and Welch Avenue. That historic

building now houses two apartments.

Services for Everett Munson were held at Berthoud’s Presbyterian church. The promising young

man was laid to rest in the family plot in Longmont.

One year later, in 1907, town founder Peter Turner provided a safe place for Berthoud skaters when he fl ooded a few acres of land that he owned east of the fl our mill to create an ice rink. The stockholders of the Loveland Lake & Ditch Co. donated water for the rink from their lake lo-cated a stone’s throw northwest of the present-day intersection of Larimer County Rd. 17 and Berthoud’s Bunyan Avenue.

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A LOOK AT BERTHOUD

Look at

Loveland

Thin ice caused skating tragedy at Sunnyslope Reservoir in 1906

Photo from the Ludlow Collection, Berthoud Historical Society

Lloyd Armstrong was one of two young men who lost their lives in an ice skating accident north of Berthoud in 1906. Armstrong and his mother moved to Berthoud from Illinois to benefi t the young man’s health.

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