Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-01-05


ciate an Apparently Drowned
Person.
CAPTAIN H. H. Daily, Of San Fran
CISCO. is at present a visitor to this city
and was met at the Hotel Behler yes
terdav by a Register representative.
Capta.n Daily has devoted a great deal
of time and study to the art of swim
ming and life saving in this country
and foreign lands, having acquired a
national and worldwide reputation n
both these lines, and was awarded by
the Federal government IN 1884 a gold
medal for heroic deeds performed IN
shaving human life from the seas in
this country. 1T is fact, said Cap
tan Daily, that there is but little at
tention paid these days to the matter OF
learning how to swim well, or the ac-
curing of skilled and practical knowl-
edge of how to save people from death
in the water. Only the medical profess
sion, or those who have met in some
form disasters on the water, view the
subject in anywhere near the correct
light. Also, there is very little know.
edge prevailing as TO how to resuscitate
persons after being rescued from the
water.
The old fashion style of restoring a
person who had been in the water to
life and a normal condition, was to roll
them on a barrel after being taken out
of the water, and many life has been
rolled out on the barre. which might
have been saved by proper treatment.
AS soon as a person is taken out Of the
water right on the shore, work should
be at once commenced upon him. Lift
the body so that what water is in the
throat will run out. Tht.l turn the
body over laying on the back, with
something under the back, no matter
what 1t may be. so as to let the head
down. Have the arms of the patient
extended above the head, then kneel
astr.de the knees Of the person, then
press with the hands on the lower part
of the ribs on both sides of the body.
Press firmly upward while three is
counted then let go suddenly and count
two, and then press upwards again
while you count three, let go suddenly,
and repeat this movement until signs
of l.fe return. / have worked IN this
manner over a person forty-five min
utes before signs Of life returned Work
should not stop for an hour, or at least
until competent medical authority ap-
peared. The first symptoms of return
ing life is sigh. Then as soon as
that comes, commence rubbing or re-
move the person to a place where bot
ties Of hot water can be applied TO the
stomach arms and other parts of the
body. TIE idea IS to keep the body
warm. When the patient IS fully
awake, a teaspoonfu, of liquor, brandy
or whisky or a wine glass of water
should be given the patient only, how
ever, teaspoonful at time. Then let
the patient s.eep and fully recover"
How should person act in sight of
danger or accident in the water, and
what are some simple rules you could
give by way of adv.ve and suggestion in
a general way along these l;nes?"
well, the first thing IS to think what
to do. Thirty seconds thought at the
first appearance of accident may save
the tfe. The first thing is what to do.
and theGcXt how to do it. An old fence
where you eaH get a board to throw to
the person, or where a Efe preserver
can be secured may be brought TO use
by person who IS not swimmer. or
other and different available .thirgs
which would hep the person in the
water Also call out to the person IN
the water to keep his arms below the
surface and attempt by the use Of cool
judgment and those means at hand to
get the person out Of the water. A
swimmer seeing the accident would
naturally jump for the person. In do
ing that be sure, # you are the swim
mer, to get behind the struggling per-
son. Catch them about the waist with
one arm below the arms, throw your
self on your back and swimming with
both feet and one hand, you will find
that you can readily support the body
with one hand. In case Of accident IN
the water through the ice in a running
stream, and in the event that a swim
mer Is at hand, he should dive into the
water at once, and If others are near, a
hole should be broken below IN the
ice, or f the swimmer is alone he could
perhaps do this. or find out if the zee
was already broken below. 1t would be
folly for person even although a good
swimmer TO go under the zee in a NOV
ing stream without such facilities for
coming out again were arranged. Where
a life preserver is at hand, the swimmer
or other person should not throw t to
the person in the water, but put It on
himself and jump into the water. hav-
ing the same fastened to a rope in the
hands Of those ashore II possible. on the
ice or at other situations, and then when
the person IS secured N the water they
can both be pulled to a place of safety.
The great feature OF life saving IS TO be
possessed of cool Judgment at the time
CT the accident by the person or persons
who seek to effect a rescue and prompt
action in carrying the same out
The person or persons who fall into
the water and are not able to swim
should know this fact, that with the
hands below the surface of the water
It is impossible for the body 10 sink. BY
clasD'ng the hands together behind
the body Will come TO the surface and
float until help reaches or you starve 10
death 1t is an .mposs,bil.ty for a per-
son to sink in that position. THIS is
the great rule for action by nOn-swim-
mers everywhere. To illustrate the
above fact, at Portsmouth. n. H.. some
time since a party Of four were out n a
salboat, two ladies' and two gentlemen.
The wind died out. and they had no
oars and the current carried the boat
down the river under bridge. The
bridge was so low that the mast hit
the bridge, upfpped the boat, and its
occupants were into the water. One OF
the men swan Immediately for the pil-
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