Show IN THE QUICKSANDS I rilling and Almost Fatal Adventure of a Pennsylvania Sportsman Quicksand swallowed W A Finley a hotel proprietor of Korristown Tuesday to the waist and but for the heroic assistance as-sistance of two friends he would have met an awful doom Finley William Shine and John Good win started out to catch snipe and snappers snap-pers They drove to Fairview and then started on foot up the Skippack creek which flows a mile from the town They chose this spot for their tour for game because it is rarely visited Finley and Shine waded in the creek searching for snappers while Goodwin remained on the bank gunning for snipe Without knowing it Finley walked into a bed of quicksand He did not realize for some minutes the peril he was in Rapidly he began to sink and then the horror of the threatened doom confronted con-fronted him He tried to lift his feet but his legs had sunk to the tops of his boots in the consuming sand and the water touched his waist Finley pulled and tagged at his right leg It yielded but at the same time his left foot penetrated pene-trated deeper and deeper into the mysterious mys-terious substance Then he reversed his efforts and with all his strength pulled at his left leg It yielded but the right leg went down to an alarming depth Finley called to Shine for help and the latter responded quickly He tried in vain at his own peril to extricate his friend By this time the quicksand had j almost swallowed Finleys legs and the water was gradually rising und nearing his shoulders Then Goodwin was summoned The victim was sinking more rapidly now and the water was getting alarmingly near his chin The combined efforts of the two friends checked the descent They tugged for 10 minutes before Fin ley utterly exhausted was pulled from the quicksand For curiosity they afterward aft-erward tried to reach the bottom of the bed with long sticks The sand was found to be over six feet deep Philadelphia Phila-delphia Record |