The sun., 1894-02-04
AWFUI SUFFERING on THE ICE
The Experience or Three Fishermen wks
Went to sleep In Their ShanIies.
FROM n, Cd" ti'y Eatrrnyi,e.

from t'r 'ds' 'NH fHfFTFhc
Last week Friday forenoon L. @. Fittinger,
aged ~ years. Frank Van felt aged 80 years,
and man hy the name Of Costing aged %
leo in saginaw Bay about mile each taking
along the usual fish ehanty." They spent
slept in the shanties. saturday morning they
made the awful discovery that the ice on which
theI sSore and Was i,oatine o4t intS tbs bsyI
They hastily endeavOTed to find n place on the
large ice craft, which was near enough TO the
sible, MS they had gone too lar out into the bay.
They now "hunched" their shanties in hopes
that they might 10y keeping them together.
use them in some manner to reach land,
They continued To- dritt further into the bay,
half miles from the Little charity Islands.
the ice they were on rednced fully three
fourths in size and tho shSnties, which con-
tanned their small supply OF provisions, gone.
They thought perhaps, that they might. by
TEnE CUE 2e %Sd H enareS t5s
further northeast. and this faint hope vanish-
see the liGhthou-e at Tawas. They now had
hopes OF driltinE near enough 20 Tawas TO bs
able 20 make themselves heard on the land,
but the wlnd shifted ana thrY were carried
back to within ons-half mile OF the northeast
side OF Zig Charity Islands;
and sunday, night, the weather constantly
growing colder. Early Monday morning the
about twenty leet square, Costing. who had
became crazed by long suffering, started TO
reach land hy jumping from cake to cake.
About three hours later his despairing err for
help was heard by littingsr and an Pelt and
he was seen TO sink amid the ice 10 rise no more.
Before daYbreak Fittingsr atte mptsd 70 end
his terrible sutlerinss by stabbing himself
with = kn.ie' ! nnt was prey prevented hy van PeIt.
couraRel him as much as possible. The
broken piece, OF ice had, during the night.
IRrtlally frozen together and the two men re-
solved TO make "a last desperate struggle %
reach lanI They commenced to crawl on
their han and knees in a direction supposed
Is ytowarl tHseyIlle. Fittinger soon became sI-
haGstsd. and Nan Peit concluded TO leave him
and push on Flttinger encouraging him to do
so. Nan Pclt succeeded N getting within about
a quarter Of mile OF the shore, and hts Joy
can 10 lmaS ihsu wheh ne DeeA Ahe aHaIe thst
two men. who were hewing timber on the
shore noticed him.
They hurrteito Caseyllle secured a boat and
helr AMI soon reached Van felt, although TO
him II seemed almost an age. lie was rescued
none too soon, as ths Ice he was standing upon
was but about six feet square, and bis weighs
settled It to the extent that he Was standing in
Fittlnger was found about a mile and three
quarters further out in the bay. lie Was so
near dead that II was with dlnlculty that he
could raise himself upon his elbows to see his
approaching Tsscue~s. The rssvuers after
going as near 70 hiu rs they could with the
Loa', found II necessary T. send one OF their
sleigh Iittinger was turned over on his back
and '.tlEEed behind the sleigh to the boat. the
Ice not being strong enough to admit OF any
In a short time alter being rescued Van Pet
and littingNr We're as two dead men. During
their terrible yoyRge and struggle for life thsy
were neTFed 20 almost subsrhuman efforts.
and not untl 6eyond all danger, Of the tey
theiT boil INJURIES They we're cut bruised
All that medical skill can suggest and kind
friends can % for them Is being done. aud ID
Is thought with careful nursing they will re-
three nights terrible oxperienes on Saginaw
Bay Will never be recalled TO the.r msmorY
from 6sy City ' but short time before isSSISS
the hank. and this he Loaf win hls shGRtE