St. Paul daily globe., 1893-02-19
TAKEN FROM THE LAKE.
Tom Garrison's Life Saved by a
WcII-Trained Horse.

WcII-Trained Horse.
New York Sun.
Tom Garrison, a Well-known guide
and fisherman at Greenwood Lake, bad
a narrow escape from drowning at Lake
Denmark. in Morris county. Saturday
morning. He and his father recently
walked eighteen miles from Greenwood
Lake to Lake Denmark to go to work
upon the ice field for w. G. DeGraW, of
Greenwood Lake, who has the contract
for filling the ice house, there.
Tom has been employed by DeGraw
for many years in summer and winter,
and he took charge of DeGraw's team,
Nell and Daisy, in clearing, marking
and cutting the ice. The mare and colt
are old-time friends of young Tom, and
will do more TOR him than for their
owner. For years he has fed, grOOmed
and driven them, and at times has slept
in the stable at Lakeside with them.
Saturday morning at 6 O'Clock Tom
harneSsed the team and drove out upon
the ice to begin clearing off space for
the cutters. The drifting snow during
the night had completely obliterated
the field of work of the previous day,
and Tom had to go along cautiously
and take his bearings along the shore,
tracing the line of the canal from the
elevator by guess, and using his best
Judgment to decide where the new ice
began. His only guides OH the field
were the inverted ice ploWS and mark
erS.
Tom proceeded cautiously until he
dared lat drive the team any further,
and then he stopped the horses and pro-
ceeded forward 10 Investigate. Sud-
denly the ice broke under him, and he
plunged into the water. He had found
the edge where the fitteen-inch ice
ioined the three-quarter-inch ice frozen
during the night. He could get no hold
upon the snow-cOvered ice with his
hands, and was enveloped i'll three coats.
two pairs of trousers, and had heavy
boots on his feet. The cold was pene-
trating his body, and he knew that un-
less he managed to get out within fifteen
minutes he must perish.
There was nobody within half a mile
of him and no likelihood of help coming
before o'clock. Tom remembered how
Nate Davy reScued~himself and Char
lev Donald at Greenwood lake three
weeks ago by cutting hand holds in the
ice ana drawing himself out. Tom felt
in his trousers pocket and got out big
jackknife; but, i'll trying to open the
blade with his teeth, the knife dropped
from his benumbed fingers and sank in
fifteen feet of water.
The effect Of this sudden plunge upon
the horses was peculiar. They looked
at him, ,snofted and struck for the shore,
|. but Nell seemed to think better Of it
before landing, and turned back to look
at him. Tom saw ner and called to her.
The intelligent beast approached him,
and he continued talking to her in a
coaxing voice. When she was within
ten feet of him he thought of her train
ing in plowing the old patch back of
Lakeside, upon which he had followed
her many a weary day. whoa, Nell,"
he shouted. Gee, now, gal. Whoa.
there. Steady, gal.
Back up. Whoa" and in an instant
he seized her long, flowing tail and
shouted, "Git ep." Neil ystarted for
ward and Tom was dragged out upon
the ice. He ran to the engine house,
closed the fire door and divested himself
Of his wet clothes, appropriated suit
belonging to the engineer and was. out
upon the Ice again with the team before
the men came down. The only regret
he expressed was for the loss of his
knife, which was handsome one,
given to him by Thomas A. Hodgkin-
| sou, of this city, last summer.