St. Cloud, Minn. A 54-year-old Rice man drowned in a quarry connected by a channel to the Mississippi River on Saturday night near the St. Cloud Country Club.

Clifford David Malikowski was fishing with friends near the
quarry just west of the river when he fell into deeper water,
according to the St. Cloud Police Department. He was crossing the
water-filled quarry to get to a sand bar, witnesses told
police.

Police and firefighters were called to the area at about 6:30
p.m. Malikowski was found underwater about an hour later. Gold
Cross Ambulance paramedics brought him to St. Cloud Hospital, where
he was pronounced dead.