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Show A DARING RESCUE. Three Men Taken From an Ice Floe Which Was Carrying Them to Certain Death. Captain L. O. Lawson, William P. Kay and W. W. Wilkinson.members of the Evanston life saving crew, had a narrow escape from death the other morning while attempting to clear anchor an-chor ice away from the waterworks inlet. in-let. The men were in a small rowboat and were caught between large cakes of floating ice and carried two miles out into the lake. After a hard fight with the floating ice they were rescued by a volunteer party consisting of Sam Pee-ney, Pee-ney, chief engineer at the Evanston wa terworks; John Moore, the lighthouse keeper, and Bob Skyles and Byron Dawson, Daw-son, firemen at the waterworks Early in the morning water was running run-ning very elowly into the large main, and fearing another water famine Captain Cap-tain Lawson and his companions started for the intake, which is one mile oif-shore. oif-shore. A heavy wind had been blowing inshore all night before, and the shore was lined with great cakes of ice. After Aft-er working hard the men succeeded in launching their boat and started through the bobbing cakes for the inlet. When about half the distance had been covered, the men noticed that the wind had changed and was blowing hard from offshore, and that a large field of ice was forming in a solid mass about their little craft and floating rapidly out into the lake. Pike poles were used, but it soon became apparent that unless some aid came soon they would be carried car-ried far out. A white handkerchief was tied to an oar, and the men took turns waving it. The signal was seen by John Moore, who was at work at the top of the lighthouse light-house tower. He hurried to the waterworks, water-works, a short distance away, and told Engineer Peeney, and both men, realizing realiz-ing the danger In which their comrades were, called Skyles and Dawson, and hurriedly manning another boat the four men started to the rescue. The offshore off-shore wind by this time bad cleared the 6hore water, and the rescuing party soon reached the ice floe, in the center of which was the boat containing the three men. A life line was thrown across to the prisoners, and one after another an-other they jumped from cake to cake ) and reached the rescuing boat. They were forced to abandon their own boat, which was fast in the ice. The men were all brought to the waterworks office. of-fice. Chicago Record. |