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Show Oarsmen Lose in Race With Death on Chicago River CHICAGO. Feb 15. With the life of a despondent cripple at stake, fire department oarsmen raced death down the Chicago river Tuesday ani lost They were In pursuit of nn Ire floe on which la the body rf B one-legged miin who had Jumped from a bridge. Hundreds of persons watched from the banks. Y here ihr hoats had nearly overtaken overtak-en the rapidly drifting figure, the floe tilted slOWly under the cripple's weight and the body anlshed The bod has not been recovered |