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Show I MAROONED IN i RAPIDS; SAVED AFTER 17 HOURS Man Spends Long Night in Perilous Position in the Potomac River. Washington. Sixteen men from the United States navy yard rescued Herbert Her-bert l.ugenbeel. thirty-one years old. at dawn recently from a tiny rock amid swirling fotomnc river rapids near here, where he had been tnu-rootied tnu-rootied for 17 hours. All through the night searchlights had played on the solitary prisoner perched on a rock slab, 2 by 3 feet. Jutting a foot and a half above waters wa-ters In which no man could survive. About midnight the navj men put out In a strong boat to one of three Islands between the Maryland shore and I-ugenheel's rock; to this Island they made fast a rope, which they paid out until they reached the second Island. They repented the process until un-til they reached the third. Then they fastened ropes to two of their number who picked their way among the rocks to Lugenhecl's side. Fall In Water Helps. A two-foot water drop overnight aided them in reaching l.ugerbeel, who fell, weak and exhausted. Into their arms from the slippery rock where he had sat cramped for 17 hours. Struggling against the current, but aided by the ropes, they carried Lu-genheel Lu-genheel to the neareRi Island and the , Sat Cramped for Seventeen Hours. j.avy boat. The rescuers th-n reversed their process from Island to island to the shore. I!y this tim' l.ugenbeel was recovered recov-ered suflicienlly to smile and ask: "When do we eat?" l.ugenbeel and J. II. Angel, both noted for heroic water rescues, . set out in a canoe to -hoot the rapids in search for the bodies of two drowned women, one of whom had been sighted wedged among rocks. Both Cling to Rock. Their own canoe capsized, as had that of the two women. Each man aged to reach a rock and cling to It. Angel's poalilop was 200 fe from 1-ugenbeel's and even more hazaidcus. Hi was rescued by a special fire department squad equipped with a rope gun, which made Its way by fastening :o successive rocks ami finally took him off in breeche. buoy fashion. Angel was brui.-ed while oeing hauled to safety. The bodies of both women were recovered re-covered downstream. It is believed the struggle to save the two men had dislodged the body that had been held by rocks In the rapids. |