The fish story record stands shattered. This is the latest, and it is vouched for in all seriousness: In 1873 a fisherman took some trout through the ice in Central Wisconsin. The largest trout was placed in a cold storage warehouse, and afterwards forgotten. Eleven years later the warehouse was burned, and, to save the ice, enough water was thrown on to fill up the water-tight cellar below. Three years later 447 trout were taken out of the cellar. In addition to the original one, identified through lack of an eye and a broken tail, which had evidently fallen into the water when the warehouse was destroyed, thawed out and spawned.

From— The Bamberg Herald. (Bamberg, S.C.), 25 July 1901. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.