Authorities discovered the bodies of two men who fell over a waterfall while fishing near the Minnesota-Ontario border last month.
Weather complicates search for missing fisherman in Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area
The St. Louis County Sheriff’s Department said they found the body of Melvin Grams, 40, of Lino Lakes, in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in northern Minnesota on Monday. The department also found the body of Jesse Melvin Haugen, 41, of Cambridge, on Friday.
GRAND MARAI, MINNESOTA – OCTOBER 3: Canoeists paddle on Duncan Lake in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area, northwest of Grand Marais, Minnesota, on October 3, 2005. (Photo by Jeffrey Phelps/Getty Images)
According to the sheriff’s department, Grams, Haugen and two others were fishing last month at the top of Curtain Falls between Crooked Lake and Iron Lake when two of the group’s canoes fell over the falls after one paddler tried to help the other. The other two survived, the Minnesota Star Tribune reported.
Bad weather had hampered the search for Grams and Haugen: the sheriff’s office said at one point that clouds were too low for aerial surveillance, and rain prevented searchers from continuing until conditions improved.
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Superior National Forest officials closed trails, campgrounds, land and water areas in the area to assist with the search effort.
