Show I BRAVE RESCUE Of MEN fROM RAGING fLOOD Pennsylvania Boy Saves Father and Neighbor From Death UNIONTOWN UNIONTOWN- Pa March farch arch 22 Wil Wil- Wil Ham iara H. H McDowell an aged mountaineer moun mona owes owe his life to thO heroism of Charles Hardy t a neighbor and John Har Hardy J his n year old son today by cries for help the elder eldor Hardy wont to the tho door of his lis mountain homo and saw caw McDowell's McDow McDow- ells ell's cabin floating down u Devils e creek which bich had become a fiL torrent and had swept McDowell's cabin away y as as' as the theold old man lay Jay 8 asleep leeI A short distance below tho Hardy homo home the tho stream plunges feet feet into an abyss floored by sharp jagged rocks Toward this cataract and car eer tam ain death fio floated o the tho c cabin while McDowel McDowell Mc Mc- Dowel Dowell kneeled lcd in the doorway alter alter- praying pravin for deliverance and call call- ine- ine nir for help h lp Hardy dashed d n the bank batik I and nd plunged ed into the tho icy waters nard Hardy reached cached the cabin and nd then with an n arm arnt rm about his bis neighbor struck out forthe for forthe the he shore The racing torrents swept t thim him lim n nearer nn and an near nearer r tho the falls do do- sPite his hia l to re reach b tIe the banks Exhausted Exhausted ed and read ready to gi give i up p be ne ie th hi r of r by y John Hardy the son The older elder lardy hardy seized it and nd slipped it about his is 3 sh shoulders b But to the tho boys boy's horror borror the he current was so o swift he could not haul jaul the men mOll in The three men were dra ragged dragged ed al along n until the two in the water were ere within a Ii few yards of the fans falls Th The bo boy finally was was able to hitch litch the rope about a tree and was WM thus bus enabled to dra drag tho the two men to shore bore The boys boy's han hands A were lacerated d. andis and andis his is body hody was bruised bruise and bleeding as asa a 1 result of the fight among the rocks and nd brush When t the h elder Hardy and the tho ho aged recluse had climbed up the steep bank the they found the boy had haI Hinted fainted Rint |