Ogden Weekly Standard | 1905-11-17 | Page 1 | Daring Act in Work of Rescue

frail boat is forced between two icebergs 4 now york 16 word was received in this city yesterday that clifford hamilton easton the young baltimore student who is dillon wallaces solo companion bow in the remote re alons glons ot labrador narrowly escaped drowning off the coast of st johns N F G F richards the young columbia student who left the expedition and is now on his way home saved eastone East ons life this tact ia abed by young eastone East ons father robert T B easton an attorney here when they were about two days out of st johns the party saw a huge iceberg outlined against the sky easton burning for excitement jumped into a skiff and pulled against the tide ho was determined to see a real iceberg at close quarters and bent every muscle to reach it several his skiff was whirled around by the current but he turned again and was lost to view tor more than a quarter of an hour wallace order the vessel turned to vard the iceberg and five minutes later i with the aid of glasses they beheld him on top of the huge iceberg the party at first believed tho mountain of ico to be solid but they boon saw easton raising a distress signal the next moment the iceberg split in two easton slipped into the middle and was lost to sight eastone East ons father says young mr richards saved my sons life he jumped into a skiff dodged tle floating aco and pushed his boat right to the middle of the collapsed iceberg he was in danger of being crushed at any moment my son was then struggling in alie water but richards hauled him into the boat