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Show f Sailor, In Grip Of "OP Debbil Sea", Breaks Hold And Saves Two Lives -f I - oft ' J . -w. - - -.. 'mm- J sr - - -X " - I ;.eM? !'. ." "C"'"'"' : f- :r . ; S - : j - U j Neil Wanamaker, the man who 5 'y s came up from Davy Jones' locker "V. end "flagged" U. S. Coast Guard. .' "- (""Caught in wreckage when bis barge, - T loaded with stone, turned over and sank - ' in a night storm at sea, Neil Wana- 1 , . . 1 j maker, of Philadelphia, was dragged . down for fifty feet before he could free , j 1 himself and fight his way back to the 0" ' J surface. f' MtJr 1 When he took his involuntary plunge fe'-t " with the barge, Wanamaker had in his ifiK.iiwnwn-uyj""11 Neil Wanamaker, the man who came up from Davy Jones' locker end "flagged" U. S. Coast Guard; !""Caught in wreckage when bis barge, loaded with stone, turned over and sank in a night storm at sea, Neil Wanamaker, Wana-maker, of Philadelphia, was dragged down for fifty feet before he could free himself and fight his way back to the surface. 1 When he took his involuntary plunge with the barge, Wanamaker had in his hand a flashlight Despite bis struggle to free himself, he hung on to this light land as he came up from the depths it 'was still working. It was the bright, bobbing pin point it made in the black expanse of the Atlantic that later en-, nbled a Coast Guard crew to come to the rescue, saving Wanamaker and two other men who were aboard the barge. The craft on which Wanamaker took his dive toward Davy Jones' locker was the last one of a string of barges in the tow of a tug bound for New York. Heavily loaded and racked by the storm and rough seas, the big scow sprang a leak and at once began to sink. t To avoid involving the rest of the "tow," the men cut the 300-foot hawser linking them to the next barge and prepared pre-pared to take their chance with the life preservers when their craft went down. In turn, the tug captain, unable to stop or turn around because of the danger of getting the barges tangled, did all he could to aid the abandoned ones. He radioed the Coast Guard, giving the position of the drifting men. - "We started to sink at midnight," Wanamaker said, "and went down fast. Just before thelfinal crack-up a wave i knocked me flat on deck. The nex) thing I knew the barge was under water I was pulled down with it, caught against the wreckage of the cabin. Thi oil lamps on the boat had been out foi some time, of course, and I had been using my flashlight. It was still clutched in my hand, and lit, too. Feeling around above my head, I found what was hold- ing me, and managed to free myself, 1 "When I came to the surface, t picked out the other fellows floating nearby. It was mighty cold as wd bobbed around on those waves. Wd didn't know the Coast Guard wa3 coming, but I kept the light burning all that time, hoping someone would spot us. It was the only thing we had to signal with, but the batteries were fresh and the. light remained strong, li it had gone out, the Coast Guard mighfl not have found us in time when they did arrive." j Wanamaker and his two companions' were taken to a hospital in New York ; where they underwent treatment fot their long exposure to the icy seas. They1 recovered at once and seemed none the worse for their experience. j |