Tragic news re: Backwater Eddy

[CraigM]

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[Jim Almquist]

Published June 27, 2011, 10:10 AM

Man's body recovered in presumed accidental drowning south of Moorhead

MOORHEAD – The body of a Moorhead fisherman was recovered from a creek south of the city on Sunday in what appears to be an accidental drowning, Clay County Sheriff Bill Bergquist said.

By: Forum staff reports, INFORUM

MOORHEAD – The body of a Moorhead fisherman was recovered from a creek south of the city on Sunday in what appears to be an accidental drowning, Clay County Sheriff Bill Bergquist said.

The man was identified as 49-year-old Edwin Carlson, formerly of Sargent County, N.D. His body was sent to the Ramsey County Medical Examiner’s Office for an autopsy, Bergquist said.

The sheriff’s office responded at 5:40 p.m. Sunday to the 12000 block of Third Street South, about nine miles south of Moorhead, to check on the welfare of a man fishing on Wolverton Creek. Carlson’s white van was parked along the road at a bridge where he’d fished many times, but he wasn’t around it, Bergquist said.

“When we had that little rainstorm yesterday, some of the neighbors drove by and his van was sitting there wide open, windows open, radio playing, and he wasn’t around, so they closed it all up for him,” Bergquist said. “They thought maybe he’d walked down the river a ways. And then after the rain got over, they came back, looked for him but couldn’t find him, so they called us.”

A search dog and boats from Valley Water Rescue and the Sabin Fire Department were used to search the area. The Sabin boat crew found the body about one-eighth of a mile from the bridge.

Bergquist said a lot of the man’s footprints had been washed away by the rain, but there was some mud on the edge of a concrete bridge culvert where the man apparently had been standing, and it “looked like he maybe slipped in,” he said.

“There were no indications on his body of anything but that, but the autopsy will tell us that,” he said.

Carlson’s family members in North Dakota and South Dakota were notified of his death.

The incident remains under investigation.

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[JbuZZo]

that is terrible news, what a tragedy. I learned alot about fishing just from reading Ed's posts here. Wow...

[BartmanMN]

Sad, Sad news. My thoughts and prayers go out to Ed's family and friends.

[Northlander]

Very sad day for sure!