Show waft T RESCUED FROM RION DEATH ON A RAFT OF NE NEW YORK MAN FLOATING OUT TO SEA WHEN FEEBLE CRIES A ATTRACT ATTENTION blew ew york feeble cries tor for help that seemed to come from far cut out on the east river were beard heard early one morning recently by employed emp loyes of the municipal ferry at the battery from a partially frozen man wan lying helpless a considerable distance off chore shore on a large ice fee doe floe on which be he had floated for several hours hour for ten minutes the men were un able tible to see the man who they be lived waa was swimming toward the eh A ire they called out but in response again heard only his taint faint cries for help at that instant the tide carried a number of ico fee floes the be moon lit bt part of the water waters and the man mans s form was dt discovered frank dugan of 1311 bristol street I 1 a 9 the th man was found lying on an his back and patrick mcgann ot of west thirty fifth street and several other emp employee loyes launched a lifeboat from the ferry slip tharman was found lying on his back one leg extended over the ice foe floe and wax was dragging in the water ills clothes were frozen to the ice ills ilia hair was covered with ice and his body was rigid from the cold they lifted him off the floe after a great deal of dim culty and took him ashore in the hospital he said he was vms 11 llam wiseman 42 years old and that he lived at forty first street on account of his condition it was as hard to get a coherent statement from him lie ile said he fell how a dock but be he could not tell whether it was near the foot of the street where le lives or in that immediate vicinity lie struggled to get ge to the shore but the tide carried him cot to midstream his shoes and clothes rundo wade it difficult for him to swim he ife remt bers see ing the lights of what be he be believes eleves were the williamsburg William iburg and the ll Brook rooklyn lya bridges |