EAGLE LAKE – Two brothers from Massachusetts who went snowmobiling in northern Maine created a lot of concern and work overnight Tuesday into Wednesday morning.

One of them remained hospitalized at the Cary Medical Center in Caribou on Wednesday with a fractured leg after a snowmobile accident.

The other man was in custody Wednesday, being held on an outstanding arrest warrant, according to Mark Latti, spokesman for the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife.

Foster Webster, 39, of Blandford, Mass., crashed his snowmobile at about 7:30 p.m. Tuesday. He was found by other snowmobilers at about 9:30 p.m. and transported to the Northern Maine Medical Center in Fort Kent. Later, he was transferred to the Caribou hospital.

Game wardens charged Foster Webster with operating to endanger and operating while under the influence.

Fred Webster, 41, of Russell, Mass., was reported missing Tuesday night. Game wardens and volunteers, some 20 people, searched through the night. A game warden plane joined the search at daybreak.

Webster turned up at the Overlook Motel at Eagle Lake at about 10:30 a.m. Wednesday.

Latti said Webster was arrested on an outstanding warrant for operating while under the influence. The Scarborough warrant was served on Webster while he was still at the Overlook Motel by officers of the Maine State Police.

He was in custody Wednesday afternoon.

Latti said the brothers were originally part of a six-person snowmobiling party. One of the snowmobiles broke down, and that person caught a ride with someone back to their Eagle Lake motel.

The remainder of the group headed back to the Eagle Lake motel from the Sporting Club in Sinclair. The group got split up. Three stopped near Martin’s Store in Sinclair and waited. When the other two did not show up, they returned to the motel in Eagle Lake.

Foster Webster was on ITS 83, about two miles from the intersection of Route 162, near Barn Brook Road in Sinclair, when he crashed his sled at about 7:30 p.m.

Snowmobilers who discovered him at about 9:30 p.m. called game wardens. Foster Webster was charged Wednesday morning while at the hospital in Caribou.

Fred Webster, after being separated from his friends, made his way to Madawaska, where he spent the night in a motel. He did not call anyone in his party to tell them he was OK. He made his way from Madawaska back to Eagle Lake Wednesday morning.

Meanwhile, game wardens initiated a search at about 12:30 a.m. Wednesday after learning Webster was missing. Game wardens and volunteers searched the trail for him through the night. Some 20 sleds were involved in the search, Latti said.

“He was snug and warm in a Madawaska motel while everyone was out looking for him,” Latti said Wednesday afternoon.