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Show Heilmann Bats 1000 in Tank Drama at Detroit HAEEY HEILMANN. ll I DETROIT. July 26. Two persons were drowned and three others narrowly escaped es-caped a similar fate late last night when an automobile they occupied backed off a dock at the waterworks park into the reservoir. The drowned were: Mrs. Gertrude Stead man and her 2-y 2-y ear-old daughter, Helen. Leroy Stead man, husband of the dead woman, Miss Lydia Johnson cf Rome. N. Y., and liarry Draper of this city were saved through the quick work of Harry Heilmann. outfielder of the Detroit American league baseball base-ball team, who jumped into the water and succeeded in pulling them to the pilings at the edge of the dock, where they clung until assisted from the water. |