Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1904-07-15

him to hold to. Instead of taking It
coolly, for his air hose was so thick it
couldn't cramp, he got excited and got
snarled worse and worse. I was sent
down to free him. When I got him
freed and sent him to the surface they
had to cut his suit off. He had gone
stark, raving mad and was sent to an
asylum, incurable.
Another bad case occurred at Pi-
raeus, the seaport to Athens. 1t Is a
narrow anchorage, and two ships an
Choir chains fouled. A diver was sent
down to loose them. His life line and
air hose fouled the anchor chains. He
grew excited and signaled to go up.
But Of course that only tied him tight
er. A second diver was sent down to
free him. The first diver had quit
struggling, and he was freed and pull
ed up, and then the second diver him.
self became entangled in the chain.
Without taking lesson from the fate
Of the first one, he, too, got excited and
frantic and became entangled worse
and worse. A third diver was sent
down to free him. Incredible as 1t
may seem, the third diver in struggling
with the second became entangled, and
the two Of them lost all self control
and fought and struggled wildly to
get free. was working on a neigh
boring ship and was sent for I went
down cautiously. But the two Of them
had Quieted down. I managed to get
them unsnarled and sent them up.
They had to cut of their suits. Each
one Of the three had turned black In
the face. Within an hour they were
all dead. killed because they lost their
self control and were overcome by
fright"
Mr.. Glendon had one experience that
was somewhat amusing. He was work.
ing on the cargo Of q wrecked liner and
had sent up unknowingly some Lin
burger cheese. When the men above
opened up that package the men at the
air pumps nearly deserted. In add.
ton to its being genuine the cheese had
been in the water long and an aging
time. They determined to even up with
the diver. One Of them, carefully en-,
veloping his face, held handful OF
the stuff over the receiver Of the all
pump. When the first Whit came
down the air hose, Mr.. Glendon nearly
tainted. He became dizzy and signaled
to go up, thinking he was attacked
with vertigo. When, In response to
bis violent signals Of recall. they pulled
him up, he was ON the verge Of col.
lapse. The men above al swore, how
ever, that he had sent the cheese uI
on purpose and that he deserved what
he got.
An authentic escape from death that
reads like romance was that Of q
diver who went down to the wreck Of
the Cunard liner Oregon of Fire island
light, Long Island. The diver had pre-
pared slingload Of articles and sig
nailed for those above to haul it up. In
some manner his air hose got foul Of
the sling, and sudden jerk cut it al
the coupling. But the strange feature
was that the air hose itself was sc
firmly tangled with the sling that he
was hauled up with it, and before thu
water could overcome him those or
deck had cut Off his suit and brought
him to-
A scene which Mr.. Glendon says vii
i've with him always because Of th.
startling shock which 1t gave him a.
the time occurred at the wreck of {
sailing vessel on the Newfoundland
banks There We're several passenger.
! known to have been drowned, and h,
went down to search for bodies. II
ordinary cases in ocean water dive
can distinguish objects during daylight
! from fifty to a hundred feet, but i
! was near evening. and objects could b,
but family dtscerned even close a
hand. He hac been carefully examin
! ing the berths and had turned to g