The body of a canoeist who disappeared after his boat went over a waterfall in northern Minnesota was discovered Friday nearly two weeks after he went missing.
Searchers found the remains of Jesse Haugen, 41, of Cambridge, Minnesota, near the Canadian border on May 18, the St. Louis County Sheriff's Office said Friday, according to the Star Tribune newspaper.
Another canoeist, Reis Grams, 40, of Lino Lakes, Minnesota, also disappeared during the deadly accident and remains missing.
The tragedy unfolded May 18, when two canoes plunged over the Curtain Falls between Crooked Lake and Iron Lake nin the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, the Star Tribune said.
One canoein the group "got into some distress and the others tried to give assistance," authorities reportedly said at the time.
Two other men, Kyle Sellers and Erik Grams, Reis Grams' brother, also went over the falls but survived, according to the Star Tribune.
"Erik said he was immediately swept under water," Reis Grams' wife, Angie Grams, told local TV station KMSP last month.
Erik said he was "'swimming 'to the light.' And then he was able to gasp for air. But then he was sucked back under and he was washed ashore and was able to locate some nearby campers that came to help," she added.
The search for Reis Grams was continuing, the Star Tribune said.
An online GoFundMe appeal for donations for the Haugen's and Reis Grams' familes has raised more than $31,000 toward a goal of $50,000.
