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Show TWO CHIMNEY BUILDERS ARE MAROONED 154 FEET IN AIR Caught on Narrow Plank Near Top of Big Flue Tear Shirts Into Strings, Pull Up Rope and Slide to Safety. Now York. Two men woro held prisoners Inside the new rolnforced concrete chlmnoy nt a steel plant at Mariners' Harbor, S. I., for 5V. hours tho other afternoon. They wore on a plank six feet long by two feet wide ten feet from tho top ot the chimney, which Is 164 feet high. Their rescue was effected after a long struggle by othor employes and members of the flro department, who wore called to aid In getting the men' down. The prisoners on tho chimney woro Harry Towyne, foreman of tho Job, und Conrlcd Ilrlol, his assistant. Doth nro expert chimney builders. The work had been practically tin-Ished tin-Ished when the men went up to do some cementing near the top. A ladder lad-der 1G8 feot long in 12-foot sections had been rigged up lnsido tho chimney. chim-ney. Towyne and Brlol climbed up this at one o'clock. Thoy cemented the top or rim of the chimney, then climbed down to a scaffolding that had been built ton foet below the top, when a small ladder lad-der they had used In reaching tho top dropped. Towyno and Ilrlol began to rip up tho floor of tho scaffolding. They had ripped up all tho timbers but ono tho largost the centerpiece of tho scaffold. They stood on this as they dropped the last of the other boards. Tho last plank thoy dropped didn't go straight to tho bottom, but struck on the 8ldo of tho chlmnoy nnd, glancing, glanc-ing, crashed heavily Into an upright ladder somo distance below the two mon. The forco of tho plank snapped tho ladder and tho upper halt of It tumblod In n heap bolow. Tho two men found themselves marooned ma-rooned high up with only a plank two feot wldo to stand on. Thoy cried for holp for what seemed to thorn days. About live o'clock tho othor workmen nround tho plant walked Into tho chimney ground lovof and heard tho cries of tho two prls-onors. prls-onors. News of tho men's plight spread quickly. Soon a largo crowd was nt tho bottom of tho big flue. All sorts of schemes for getting them down woro advanced. Whllo tho crowd was collecting, among them mcmbors of a flro company, com-pany, tho marooned men wero trying . to help themselves, Thoy mado their AAA.M.M.AMAkAAftAftM shirts Into a thin tape line and lo ercd It 164 foet to the bottom of the chimney. With this they drew up an Inch ropo, their Idea being to slide down on It on tho lnsido aftor throw- The Men in Turn Slid Down the Rope, ing one end of it out of tho top of tho chlmnoy and having It anchored to something solid. nut when they throw tho ond oven the top of tho chlmnoy It stuck in the) soft concreto and would not budge1 either way. When the mon had got the ropo they thought themselvo3 all right and dropped tholr shlrt-mndo lino. Their knives wont with It. Thoy woro nonplused for a mlnuto. Then they began making anothor lino out of tholr undershirts. With this tho drew up a flshllno, thon anothor Inch ropo. They successfully threw this out the top ot tho chimney nnd tho end was fastened to a railroad track on tho ground. The men In turn slid down tho rope, but badly burned their hands In doing so. |