| Show RACING ACROSS JuN IC BREAKS THROUGH I Two Occupants Si SinK Sinic k but hut butAre butAre Are S Saved ved in hi Thrilling Thrill Thrill- ThrillIng Thrilling ing Rescue By ay rn International News n Service Sen NEW EW T TORK RK Feb l 12 The Tho Tho race raco of ot an two against scooters o over or r th the ce of It Great South ba bay yesterday Th almost tn ended ed in a ft tragedy d and Hundreds watch watch- In ng from the shore and on ott tho the Ice W wore rt th thrilled drilled Ule by tho the rescue of two men from drownIng dro Ice on the bay has hal reached a thickness sl of f from fifteen Inches to three feet teet and andor for or th the time In twenty tInty years year teams liars e tave b bc befit ii l abl able to cross from the main shore hore to Fire island strip The condition Suggested a II trial of speed between n a high power automobile and the swift little Ice ica end and nd water sailing craft known to the bayman bayman bay- bay man aa ns scooters rs and to the tho neighborhood Charles Charlea Ketchen former ronner mayor of ot Babylon furnIshed and dr drove v the automobile automobile auto auto- mobile motH end and had as his companion Justice himes B. B Cooper of Babylon These t two o men risked their lives lI agaInst the tried and nd safer craft for tor they suddenly found lT struggling In tho the loy icy waters and nd menaced b by the huge huse and restless broken pieces hut were finally brought to safet safety b by the heroism of or their friends Half HaU a mile of ot the race had been cov- cov red wh when n. n to the Ule astonishment of ot the tha fI ct tOts th the auto seemed to suddenly disappear bene beneath th th the ice LOOking Locking again thoe lose on shore saw that the machine chine had truck struck a rotten place In the Ice arid and that thattie tile tie bod body had bad crashed through but that tile the 10 tint front wheels of ot the machine like a aman aman man clinging with his hands were holdIng hold hold- log Ing tiff to the solid ice tee where it had broken clean lean Mr Mr- l Ketchen etchen and Justice Cooper could not be seen Thomas TIme Timey proprietor prop 0 of the East Eastend end EM hotel hOtcH James Jam V. W. Eat Eaton laton n. n Howard B. B Hendricks and Frank Dondero started from rom the shore Il- Il i a-i athe the two vo scooters t turned limed rn and arid came back to the spot where ho tho ice ICI had brok broken ln As the men mon from the shore ran rn over the he the Ice th they y saw lI lIthe the the heads head of Ketchen and nd Justice Coo Cooper bobbing in the rapidly rapid- rapid ly y growing open space apace of ot water It was impossible l to get et close cioe to the two wo men and a a. hyman htman ch chain l was formed by y th the four jour men lying face downward rd on n the treacherous Ice and working their way HV It out to the men When hen had ad push pushed d' d his w way wiy y as is asar tar far ar as he could go 10 a captain of ot on one of th the ic scooters coolers tossed toM him a acon coil coll of ot rope This his was WILlI flung nung to the tho numbed men In Inthe th the le water Water- Both were able ble to make mako the rope topo opo fast about their wal waists t. t and by Inch Inch- lag their way ar back to th the links of Gf the tho thomm human mm an chain were wert able to reach holdIn Ice ct and to draw the exhausted and half conscious Ja men out ont of or th the water |
