The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-02-16
WOMAN IN GRIP OF ICE PACK
FLOATING DOIFN HARLEM RIVER
--.uAN COULDN'T PRY HEROJT.

Btbblng, Grinding floes-North
IrGtLer Cock She Wns--t axes That
Held her Annat Bruised her Badly.
JOHN Foley, tied up in tie Harlem River
ct the foot OF ll2d street. heard woman
in tic river screaming for Lelp about 0
o'clock last night. Tne captain was Just
about TO tumble into bed and he rush d
up on deck partly dressed.
re tCu.u see lie nCu.sn out in the river
about 100 feet from the barge. She was
wedged between two big CAKES Of ice. her
head and shoulders alone being in sight.
The ice in the rver at that point more
than foot thick and in bad Jam The
cakes are unusually big The whole mass
was moving south with the ehb tide
Capt. Berry hesitated only a second
Then, without waiting to put on any other
clothes except IA pair Of boots. he grabbed
a long pole and leaped down on one Of the
big cakes that was rubbing tie paint on
the side Of the John Foley. Tie Toes were
plenty large enough to support his weight
without danger and he made his way with
out difficulty 70 tie spot where tie impris-
oned woman was floating.
She was Almost uLCCLeciCus, teirC rec
in an almost viselike giip ttwttn two
enormous cakes OF ice, which we're rinch.rg
her just below the shoulders. The captain
tried to separate tho two huge masses ty
making lever CT his role. at the same time
keeping a safe holu On the woman. 1ly Is
he would, he Couldn't bulge the two huge
CHUNKS. Then he set Up cry for help,
All this time the cap aims wife tad been
sanding on the dc ok of the lumbor Large.
She be came excl ed when she heard her
husbands cries mingled with the s<reams
of the woman, and took TO screaming her
self
Policemen Thomas Gleason and Frank
Terpening Of the Alexander avenue a
ton. t anding at the Madison avenue
bridge at lSsh street. toward which the
woman and the captain we're beng carried
by the tide. heard the cries. lLty ran 10
the l,2d street pier. and also without
moment t hest ION undertook the pelllcus
trip over the ice cakes One OF the poIcs'
msn WI gled over 200 pounds
BY degree, tney mace thei way 10 Capt
Berry and the woman. and then while two
of the men pried the cakes apart the third
lifted her 10 the slippery surface. she
was so exhau ted that she practically had
to be carried TO the lumber barge. Under
ordinary circumstances the trip was dan
Gerou3 enough. but for three men holding
an unconscious woman IL was tcAllsh "oTk
indeed and very slow.
The woUan's c othing was frozen etih
when she was taken on beard tie arEc,
as were n so tie 20 icen-an's uous Sis efS.
The woran's $ oulders ana neck were
ladly bruised bv tie masses of ice, and
her nose and ears were h.erdinR. Fy tie
time An amhu ancn surgeon ad arrived
from Lirco'n HosTiial she lad revived
sufficient TO give her pane SNe said SIC
was Mrs. 4 icr MeinN ard head cook Of TIE
Riverside Hospital, on North Brother Is and.
Sle could not tell how she had got into
the river
II was sdd at the hospital that yesterday
was her da- OF. She came across to Man-
haitian enrly in the afternoon on the tug
boat Frankliu Edison and went 20 visit
r-lltive at t57t, street and Southern Boule-
virf. Ths Bronx. She left this relatives
h5 n, ab1lt 5 o ,losk TO 90 back 10 the
islam /. and. SO far rs the relative knows,
there was nothing the mltter with her at
thl. 4 rs.
An employee in the New York Central
station at Mott Haven SAYS that he saw
the woiaan in the station at $50 o'clock
and she appeared 10 be dazed. She waa
warming her hands. he said. II Is believed
that she wandered over TO Gerard avenue
and down the pier and fell overheard. The
hospital surgeon thinks that she may have
been dazei by the cold Al the North
Brother Island institution she has a good
reDutation