THIRTY HAVE ESCAPE FROM DROWNING ice boat collides and sinks and crew have perilous journey on ice floes lewes del feb men narrowly escaped drowning today in the icy waters ot the harbor of refuse at the deuward breakwater and after being rescued with tho greatest difficulty by the crews 0 two tugs they acra forced to make their way to shore afoot over the heavy ice floes ith which the delaware river and bay is blocked the men whose lives were imperilled Imperil led were captain jacobs and his crew of 29 men of tho philadelphia city iceboat no 3 which made its way down the river from philadelphia in an effort to biake a channel for vessels icebound at the breakwater the iceboat collided with the sunken barge santiago tho masts and buaya ot which had been carried away by the ico jams tho iceboat had become wedged in the mass of ico be ewein the harbor of refuge and the old breakwater and was unable to proceed while drifting in this manner tho iceboat struck the barge and a large cioto was stove in her hull captain jacob s signals of distress were answered by the tuga teaser and boxer the tugs experienced much difficulty in teaching the rapidly kink ing iceboat the ice jam prevented the tugs cronl docking and the crew of the iceboat after being taken off from exposure and nearly exhausted managed to complete a perilous journey afoot across tho ice fields to shore navigation a almost at a standstill on the delaware because ot tha ico which Is jamming from the stream from trenton N J to breakwater and nearly ten mile out to