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Show PINIONED BY BLANKETS. Engineer on a Steamship Has a Peculiar Experience in New York. New York, Jan. 3. Pinioned In his bed by blankets, which, saturated by steam, had frozen stiff during the night, John Still, engineer of tho steamship Mlonac, slioutcd for help for more than an hour, Then somo men at work on a pier nearby came to his assistance. Still had loft tho be Her In chargo of his assistant over night, with Instructions to keep up steam. The assistant left about 5 o'clock In tho morning, and when Still returned to tho ship to go to his bunk tho steam was running run-ning down. Tho blankets of tho bunks had becomo saturated with the steam while the llrcs were going, and Still. Retting between them, was soon fast asleep. As the placo became cold the water In tho blankets froze and when he awakened at noon Still v.as as tightly held as If bound hand and foot. "I felt no sensation of unusual cold," said Still, "but I was In mortal dread that no one would come and that I might have to stay thero another night." |