The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-02-22
ERE RESCUE
OF NO Obs
Eysnked out Icy River BY Donkey
Enatne-sasaclous Blind Horse

tiit Eour Bottles of Whiskey and
suffers From Katzenjammer
lnsc Consequence.
Al old black dray horse blind as
abat. stoodsi in g stable near the North
rlyer Yesterday and held public re-
iseptions Teamsters, netghbors, water.
Tront Ioafery and policemen dropped
I'D toSdook him over and pat his glossy
neck Ssg L
Nobs. old black, stood With his
mead dropping and his eyes half
elosels ii no condition to- appreciate
these public tributes. He had Just
lettshis team mate on the bottom Of
the river and aSsdriver in the hospital,
and me- himself had been drowned! and
frozen and hanged and dead drunk in
the eoirse two hours. He had a
ltcense 10 look tired, in the opinion
II New York Sun
Thomas German drove up yester.
day morning q Pier Az, where the
bureau of snow removal dumps, with
load Of street ice. A that stage Of
me tide the surface of8the water was
perhaps 12 feet below the pier and
carried d tRo;foot coating Of hard
ice from the dumpings Of the early
morning The pier was frozen and
slippery; Iss
German had rather wild young
bnckskin horse on the off side Of his
team, ana old steady, intelligent
Nobs, sleek and stout, but totally
bind on the nigh side. AS hi, pulled
m close behind the pier edge the
bnckslin began ID shy. His forefoot
struck ansicy snotsS and shot out from
under hin, and he plunged straight
on the edge: There he hung above
The water. Il q
9lds Nobs felt the strain, but could
not see the danger. He began to
give little BY little, although Cor,
mar, on the box was holding him
back with all his might. The buck.
skin, held I'M the air by his collar,
gave Wild flop and over went Nobs.
For lust moment the team hung
WITH their heads down, then Cor.
man wagon and all dropped into the
river. Ss9s Ss$S
The force Of the lurch shot Cor,
man clear OK the wagon. He turned
scmersaplts inS THE air and went down
thruugh the crust OF ice. A moment
Ihter he came up, struggling desper
ately against the weight Of his heavy
ayercoat and boots and the clingine
iees He could keep up, and that was
an 81 n
John$McG uire 81 weigher at the
pier, tossed him a rope. Gorma1
could clutch II, and no more. HI
tried To- fasten II under his arms
hut tie weight Of clothes and ice wa.
20 much for him. He gave it UP
and held onSfeebly:
Geta rope around me, boys" sal
John Mcclure. tim going dow
there
Edward Drury, mate Of the Indrt
wadf heard him. Drury is an att
Ietie young E%nglishman.
No You don't he said. III
younger han YOU. Let me try
prhf tied the line under his, arm
and lmpedSSin After a hard fight !
broke channel out to German ar
tried Il q line around him.
#lookedg easy, but in fact, VIII
with HE clinging ice and the stur
Tying cold Drury was 10 mlnut
eating that line tied. When
made the fastening he was blue al
stiffs with the cold. i
EHe longshoreInen hauled CORN;
y i p[rury lleayed himself
and pointed :
st me set the horses loose
Yelled
I Eve Eyefyone$ had forgotten the hors
The blickskin was under the wreck
The wagon. Only his yellow tall
peareds above the water; he v
plainly dead: But the black muz
Il ola Nobs showed through a h
nthis3ic : and tie water boiled VIII
vas lighting, hard II blindly,
his life
Let the horses go, you'll die
there! yelled Mcclure. The lo
shoremen gave sheaYe; and by