CdA man drowns in Hauser Lake
A Coeur d’Alene man drowned Sunday in Hauser Lake when the boat he and a companion were in capsized.
Neither man was wearing a life vest, according to witnesses who responded to the incident.
Rescuers searched for about 30 minutes before finding drowning victim William W. Hess, 55, of Coeur d’Alene.
His companion, 40-year-old Aaron B. Rowe, of Post Falls, was pulled to shore by two residents who canoed to him as he clung to the overturned 8-foot aluminum boat.
“He didn’t want to let go of the boat,” said Bill Martin, a Hauser Lake resident who was working on his deck Sunday when passers-by told him two men were in the lake.
Martin and his daughter, McKenzie, reached Rowe by canoe and pulled him to shore. But by that point the other fisherman had disappeared beneath the waves, said Martin.
Rowe told Kootenai County deputies the two men were anchored about 100 yards offshore when he tried to retrieve two anchors. At that point the boat capsized, according to deputies.
Rowe was taken to Kootenai Medical Center and treated for hypothermia.
– Tom Sowa
Spokane
Police seek man accused of assault
Police spent several hours Sunday searching a north Spokane neighborhood for a man suspected of pistol-whipping his girlfriend, according to police reports.
Officers came to the woman’s house near Cedar and Maxwell on Sunday afternoon after she said Eddie Brown, 35, beat her with a gun, then ran off. Witnesses told police he ran west from the house and shed items of clothing to avoid identification.
Brown was last seen in a white T-shirt, teal shorts, and black and white athletic shoes.
Police said the woman suffered lacerations on her face and a possible concussion.
– Tom Sowa
Potlatch, Idaho
Highway 95 crash hospitalizes man
A Cottonwood, Idaho, driver was hospitalized Sunday evening following a three-vehicle collision on Highway 95 north of Potlatch.
Idaho State Police said Lowell Enneking, 21, lost control of his Chevrolet pickup Sunday afternoon and drifted across the road’s centerline.
An oncoming vehicle was forced off the road. Enneking’s truck then clipped the rear of a Nissan Altima in the opposite lane driven by Amy Recio, 28, of Coeur d’Alene.
Enneking’s vehicle caught fire after it rolled down an embankment and into a culvert approximately 100 feet off the road, police said. Another driver stopped and pulled the unconscious Enneking from the truck, the report said. He was taken to a Moscow hospital. His injuries were not specified.
Recio and the driver of the other vehicle did not suffer injuries requiring treatment, police said.
– Tom Sowa