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Show lb. i Thirteen Persons Res- j T. cued on Mississippi' J j River ll 4 j Wlckliffe, Ky , Jan. 29 The thlr- ' i teen or more persons for whose safo-i? safo-i? ly fears were expressed last night 1 ' when they were caught In ice that j choked the Mississippi river, landed H here earlj today and were returned ! ' to Bird's Point, Mo. ' ; The party had reached Bird's Point, m lo , yesterday by train and engaged s : a boatman to ferry them across the kt ', river to Cairo. They were caught in &, ; floes nnd it was feared they had lost their HveB. I The party reached a river point two 9. miles below heie soon after midnight. JH TlleJ na keen n a terrific struggle Pf with great Ice floes between the run- I nlng currents in the broad stream, fji Frank Jones, the pilot, managed to sa I elude the floes and, when there came jl. a gap in the steadj stream of ice M cakes, ho shoved his boat across to the Kentucky Bhoro In safety. B : Early today the party returned to H '- Blrd'B Point, Mo where they alighted H : from a Cotton Belt train at noon yes-H yes-H lerday. Nearly 1G0 passengers had m preached Bird's Point yesterday and Bt when they sought to cross to Cairo to 9 ! transfer to another train thoy found m the regular ferrj' service suspended B bcrause of great Ice floes that jammed B rthe river. : A large number of the passengers jB; ' enraged private boatmen to undertake : ;the passage. Frank Jones, an exper-jB exper-jB jl-cnced rlverman. took a party of 12 in Mill's "ferry" . Midway In the river ho Bp'as caught by an ice floo that swung Bliia boat perilously about. Immcdiate-Sf, Immcdiate-Sf, Iv panic soizer the party, but, beforo Bj attempts to rescue them could bo 5 'made, IJiey had been swept out of B Rlrht by the ice floe and soon the big jB Ice pack was hidden by a heavy fog. WJ Before rescuers, who had searched W tho river all night reached them, how-B:'er, how-B:'er, the party landed below here. It Is believed most of the party came ifrom Lilbourn, Mo. sS I St. Louis, Jan. 29. Passengers who 4S ia rived at Bird's Point, Mo resterday log, fo the Cotton Belt will be kept there i(2 Jnntil the Mississippi river clears of Cm fyc' e 6enera manager of the road ya iFald today. The road operates a fer-" fer-" Jiy for the transfer of passengers, mall uKrnd express at Bird's Point. "Unless jjffthe passengers now at Bird's Point iKhii-e boatmen to transport them, they jWp'.ill not be able to cross the llssls BKElppI until the river clears. |