Show i DUCK HUNTERS i fOR oR LIVES LYS IN INI I I SWAMPED S ROWBOAT I CHICAGO Nov 1 27 Swept Swept by a fierce gale galo ale far out into tho the lake in an open boat one oar gone and the small craft half balf filled with water vater Otto Otto OttoVon Won Von VonI I I gb gle le and Peter G G. G Meyer faced what bat seemed to them to be bo certain death yesterday when they thor were rescued by the life tife savin saving cr crew w sped eleven miles to their ai alit aid in iii t a motor boat Both men were exhausted from their fi fight ht at against awful odds and are arc in in a serious condition at their homes as a are result re suIt sult of the exposure and Mover put out into the lake in their small boat shortly after daylight to bunt ducks alon along aloni the short shore I The Tho had bad rowed only a short time tim when j they were cau caught ht by the terrific offshore wind nind and blown rapidly Bravely the two men b battled b a the tho waves in their efforts to get got beik belk i to shore but ono one of their oars snapped suddenly and they were left almost helpless help help- I less and at the tho mercy of the tho waves wave Tho The remaining oar was used to keep tho the S boats boat's prow to the tho wind an and by turn Vengle and Meyer eYer held beld it to keep the boat from be being swamped While one I held the oar the other worked frantically franti franti- t cally with a small dinner bailing the tho 11 water from the fast tillin filling craft A woman on ou shore si sighted the small boat buffeted about in in the seas lh that I were steadily growing wor worse and he telephoned to the life saving station staton Capt Charles Garland at once put to tosea tosea tosea sea with his bis crew in in a motor boat and at top speed the beaded headed for the small wreck wreak that was visible eleven miles away only when it rose on the crest of ofa a bi big wave The reached the tho little craft just in time for numbed benumbed by the t cold and exhausted had bad fallen to the bottom bottom bot bot- tom torn of the boat and Meyer was almost on the point of giving up his bis bailing in despair when the motor boat cane came alongside On their return trip to the shore the life savers Eavers worked vigorously over the themen themen themen men to prevent their succumbing to the exposure they had suffered |