The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1896-03-05
on AN IcE BOAT.
rhe INEXPERIENCED Man Thought lie HAD
cut ~ Mans Head ON.

| The lupxptrtfurru h"'''sr''"
| cut Mans Head on.
III was on large bay. The ice was
! ncw. and literally AS smooth as glass
from end to end. No ground swells had
worked in under il 10 make cracks, ana
| ,hc feel of the boat was more IKE
living than anything | have known
Nrcc. Az one could hear was the ciach
III the mast and the yard rs the pulls
came harder, and MS the ice skate cut
dts line in tide grcenarrNstal Il cl1iseleu
Eput u squirt Of brittle fragments mat
could he heard tinlaing on the. ice Hike
broken glass.
eve We're going eNactly5S miles an
hour, as timed between two harbor
Ilioys TINT were frozen in=-they beins
laid ~ miles aparta+and there were
few people crossing the bay, here
Eand there, on foot We had the
wind Il little forward Of abeam and
we're heading on the port tack for the
clubhouse But ahead of us, and to
windward, foot passenger was cross"
iag. At first he was only speck on
the distant ice. Then we could set
that the speck walked, and that it had
moving legs. Another few moments
and we were nearing him, when two
other iceboats were seen approaching
with almost the speed of lightning. |
thought | could cross ahead of them
and still pass behind the pedestrian,
but the other boats, being on the star
boaId tack. had the righ' OF way. we
were approaching with almost the
speed of lightning, and as dared not
at that time try to bear away, pinched
up TO clear them. This just succeed
ed in doing. though the second one
forced my course till 1 was flying
straight for the foot passenger. He
WIS then only u short distance ahead,
and he had taken to run-of course, in
the wrong direction and then fell
down in the course 1 hoped to, be able
to take.
"My iccboat was going about mile
minute, clearing space ut about 20
yards a second, say 81 feet a second,
and felt myself sicken as l saw him
fall. dared not try to bear away,
for fear the craft would not do so in
time, so ! iammed the tillcr down and
the boat took frightfully sharp curve
that sent two of the crew spinning out
over the ice to leeward. l felt the ice
skate, that is shaped like the blade OF
the guillotinc, tilt up as we few past
something black on the ice, and then,
as the boat had reached into the wind,
| looked back along the CLASSY green.
The figure was still stretched out at full
length upon the ice, and two feet ahead
of him lay something round and black
that belonged to him, but was not sep
arated from him, and | cried aloud:
My God, have cut his head OFF,
1T was a dreadful feeling. Icouldn't
stir. OF what further use was to
him?
And then l saw the figure move.
It stretched along the ice. And in the
distance | saw an arm reach forward
and seize the detached head and put
il back in place. 1t MAS the mans fur
cap the ice boat had tilted on. When he
had failed this had been thrown ahead
of him couple of feet, and mighty
glad | was to give him the price of
new one to call it square. We meas
ured the distance to find out how far
the two fellows were thrown who went
over the side at the time of the sharp
curve. We paced it off from the line
cut by the lee skate and found that
they had spun along the smooth surface
$50 feet--almost a hundred yards."-
n. y. Tribune.