Salt Lake Telegram | 1907-12-12 | Page 7 | Each Gave a Hand to Save Comrades

I EACH 61 Vf 1 1 HAND TO SAVE S NEW P YORK Dec 12 In In order older to save swe savea swea a number of comrades from Crom death Oliver Judo TUllo and antI John J J. J McGlynn Iron workers each Ench lost a n hand yesterday The Tho two m men n were at work on tho the Long Island City tower of or tho the new nets Blackw Blackwells Blackwell's oils oil's Island bridge Tho They were working high up on tho the structure and It w was lh their h duty duly to guile guide into Inlo place tho great real steel plates on which whirl the girders ers rest Below them thorn wore were workIng work work- working In Ing a score of or other men Ono One of or the great greal plates that had Just been settled Into place suddenly t b began gan to slide elide Unless It was stopped It would plunge o from Its base onto the tho heads of ot the men working below Ju Judge e and McGlynn McClynn saw tho the danger damer and shouting to th the workmen L below each earh threw an arm around a beam and each seized with his free treo hand the sliding plato plate B By a u gigantic effort they slipped the plate to ono one side so that It rested a against a abeam a beam am But nul they were unable to withdraw their hands in time they wore werl caught between the tho plate pInto and the beam Judes Jude's right hand was cut off ort at tho the wrist awl and left hand was terribly mangled Comrades rigged a tackle and antI drew the plate back no so that they thoy were released meantime holding the Injured men inert so that the they dl did not fall Call from tho the tower lower At the lie hospital McGlynn's hand was amputated Both will recover