Show NARROWLY ESCAPED DEATH Thirty Men Rescued on the Delaware Breakwater Lewes Del Fob men ncr nar narrowly escaped drowning toda today In the icy i Waters of the Harbor or of Refuge at the Delaware breakwater and after being I rescued with the greatest rea test difficulty by the crews of two tugs thc they were forced to make their wa way to shore afOot aloot over the heavy Ice floes with which the Dela Delaware Delaware ware river and bay are arc blocked The Themen Themen men whose lives Ues were Imperiled were Captain Jacobs and his crew of twenty twentynine nine men or of the Philadelphia City ice iceboat iceboat boat No 3 which made Its way down from Philadelphia In an effort to make maken n a channel for Vessels icebound at the breakwater The Ice boat collided with the sunken barge Santiago the masts and buo buoys s of which had b been cn carried away b by the Ice jam The Ice boat had become wedged In the mass of lee ice between the Harbor of Refuge and the old breakwater and was unable to proceed While drifting in inthis inthis this manner the ice boat struck the barge barJe and a large hole was stove in her hull huH Captain Jacobs signals or of distress were an answered by the tugs Teaser and Boxer The tugs experienced much dir In reaching the rapidlY sinking Ice iceboat boat hoat The Ice jam prevented the tugs tubS from docking and the crew o of the ice iceboat bout boat after being taken off stiff from exposure and nearly exhausted man ed to complete a across the lee Ice fields to shore 1 almost at a standstill on the because of the ice which Is jamming the stream from Trent Trenten n N Nto NJ J to the breakwater and extends nearl nearly ten miles out to sea s There Is a l large rge fleet of vessels of aU all kinds at the break breakwater water unable to make any headway against the jam Several ships are fast In the Ice at the a bond bend in inthe the river at Gloucester N J and It wm will probably bl several days dars before the city Ice boats can clear a passage for them |