Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1894-10-20
HE COULD NOT BREATHE
a STRUGGLE FOR LIFE IN
EIGHTY FEET OF WATER.
A New york Diver Tells How II Feels 20
sanoeats-The Air Hose Attached TO
his DIving suit Broke ana shut ON
his supply OF Treath'

Here Is the autobiography Of sur
location from the New York Press
The victim Is William OLSEN. who
was eighty feet under water Ia a
diving suit when the air hose broke
and shut on his supply Of breath
He was trying 70 attach a hawser 90
the anchor which the big steamer
La Touralne, lost on Quarantine
| few weeks ago OLSEN was hur-
rledly brought 10 the surface aud
soon after taken 10 the Long Island
I college hospital in Brooklyn tie
was we'll enough 70 leave the place
few days ago. and Just before golng
away he related his amazing expert
ence 20 a reporter His story Is a.
/ follows:
about 2 o'clock in the afternoon
4 | had found tho anchor and had
made fast one line II was not
strong enough. thought. for 700 ,
pound anchor. and | vas about 20
make fast another line
I II mad been working rather hard.
/ and found myself short Of breath |
Strengthened up and signaied for a
\ little more air noticed pom ths
4 sound that the wheels above we're
golng around very fast as though
! the men above had difficulty in send-
Z Ing me wha; little air vas thsH com
ing, Then | 60, the signal % make
ready 10 come up AZ tho same la,
slant | Was iersod 0 8 nv feet b the
tightening ~ the lite llae Qulck az
lash. 10 seemed. all the air stopped
.Oh, such feeling
III seemed 20 bg hours going Up,
II was really bat low IN uutes--aog
over two, ! am told
Aiy FIRST sensation was q terrible
smOth-rlng feeling ID MY chest.
coulda't breathe Aly brea.t fe.t a.
II IL wore baing squeezed la Au eu0rr
nous trip hammer which was grind
Ing my bones Into my IUugs Thea
all the blood 10 my body seompd 10
rush 70 my head n eyes seemed g0
start straight out u ny mead. until
could sos them about two fesE
away. although gvcry thlng vas really
black around me. Tho Top % my
head iolt as II !, wsrc about 10 blow
on and lot our tide ot something
which seemed - come from my igeE
my hands aad my inside
My neck iolt as II 4 big. thlck
ropa--thickor than IL was vide
was being dgawa tight. tighter. OF.
80 very tisht around H. Tho baca
81 my mock stlfiouad 20 that | ioit
that | could not move my hsaI IL
seemed 70 mo that tried 10 move
~, NwaF arT sg,.s .....t4 - -....t. - 10
which. sharp a. razor. seemed 10
20 clear through my neck aud circle
rouad my collar bona
"Ny collar bono thcn seemed to
b. pressed way down into ms lungs.
and I: felt o. II that Big bone waa .
dOubjeedgCd curved sword reaching
from one shoulder 60 tho othur over
my chest, thea circilng round over
my back IL ss0mrd 10 scoop out
my heart. Lungs and other organs
did not lgpl any paia In those OR,
ghus though realized that vas
losing them
"Mf throat grew dr5 and hot 80
hot that IL seemed a. II had 4 rag.
ing fire IN there, and ID seemed AZ
Y Tho heat from this dro rap!dlv
went clear through my head aud
out through my ears and nose.
"Tnon tho darkness b1g4a 10 b.
III By man stara
II never saw 80 many stars lsos
J fore. could SEQ millions ana MT.
liogs and millions 81 Thorn. ara each
one Of them seemed to shoot each 81
iis ayo points clear through my
head
II could feel that was moving
up As ! nearpd the surface ,hr
fearful pressure on my chest and
head easOd . iittlo. folt ratt,f
though the darkness vas ju4t n.
black aud tbs stars just ~ a.cksrgnv
when ] reached the surface wa
dazcd. but / vas conscious knew
what vas going on All the tims I
could feel that the men above whn
were turning tho wheel were maktpy
desperate efforts % gctme out Of th1
water.
when ] reached the surface ana
she faco glass was removed. toof n
long. dsCD breath. Nothing 1 evsr
had IN my life seemed as sweet and
~ nice as that fret breath. II
seemed as II could not got enough
Of it, :
by that time the stars had die.
appeared could get faint CLEAN
Of light though could not sec any.
thing.
"Ihe smothering sensation was
gone Ny eyes no longer seemed "a
30 outside Of my head. but instead
seemed TO have been shovoa away
IN. could not open them Tire
iesh around them seemed pulled out
70 where the eyes were when WA
under tho water. II was broad dav.
light. but tho sky seemed to 10 very
cloudy. as II a big storm was coming
on MY face was stid and sore The
pain then was In my neck and shonl.
gers MY eyes smarted dreadiully
and ! could feel that blood wa,
dripping from them. In a short time
! could SEQ little daylight. but i,
hnre knew my mouth was fpIl ~