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Show Perilous Ride in a Huge Ice Floe Seven Persons, Including Women, and Children, Havo Narrow Escape From Death. NEW YORK, Feb. 12. After n perilous, swift and enforced ride of more than three-quarters of a. mile, down the East river In a' huge lco floo tonight, soven persons, Including women and children, wore rescued by a municipal, vessel- The lloe, which stretched from North Brother island to thc Bronx shore, drifted down the river with the' tide, and In Its passage pas-sage tore from their moorings the James D. Perkins and thc Eureka, two coal barges, which had been fastened to the pier at Ono Hundred and Thirty-ninth atrcot. On the Perkins were Capt. Henry Flood, his wife and little daughter. Capt, John II. Kratznor of the Eureka had on board his wife and two sons. During Dur-ing their dangerous experience a heavy rain fell, tho river was a torrent and tho barges were surrounded by thc floe, which was headed toward Hell Gate As the barges wero loaded with coal to within a few feet of their decks, thc lec becamo piled on them to such an extent that several times ono of them nearly capsized. When the hawsers parted the women and children were pnnlc-strlcken. Tho men buckled life-preservers on the women and children and waved red lanterns lan-terns while they shouted for help. Ico was forced up on top of the barges so fast that the men were kept busy pushing push-ing back tho largo cakes to prevent the two craft from overturning. The captain of thc steamer Franklin Edson of thc Department De-partment of Charities nnd Corrections became be-came aware of the barges' predicament and ordered full steam ahead and forced his vessel through thc Ico to the aid of the endangered occupants Aftor great effort the Edson tied up alongside the barges and the women and children were taken aboard. , |