The Green Forest tribune., 1913-04-04
LIFE ShvlN; GREW
 RESCUES ORPHANS
Captain Garland and Men From Chicago Do Fine Work at
 Fort Wayne.
LEADER'S STORY IS GRAPHIC
Five BoatIoads of Children Taken Safely Across Mile of Rushing Water-incidents of the Flood
 at Peru.

at Peru.
 Chicago-Half-froZe and without food, fifty-eight children and their at tendants were rescued from the Fort Wayne Orphan Asylum by Captain Charles Garland and his crew from the Chicago life saving station. Cap tain Garland and six life savers re- turned to Chicago from Fort Wayne with their surf boat, but immediately departed for Terre Haute to continue their rescue work.
 Captain Carland's story was graphic. He told how he and his men arrived at the asylum just after four children had met death when an attempt was made to rescue them. Five trips to the asylum were made by Captain Garland and each time boatload was taken safely across half mile of swiftly flowing water. Besides the children four matrons and six men were rescued from the building.
 Garland Tells Story.
 We arrived at Fort Wayne when the water WAS highest" said Captain Garland "No sooner had we arrived when a report reached us that the children were marooned>in the Orphan Asylum. One attempt had been made to rescue them which ended disas- trously for four of the children and two brave men. The small rowboat in which the would-be rescuers had reached the building overturned after four of the children had been taken from a second-story window. All were drowned.
 "Conditions in the asylum were aw full when six men and myself finally reached the building. In one small room, huddled together half frozen and hungry, were the little girls and boys with their attendants.
 Many were crying, few were asleep from exhaustion. One of the women had tainted.
 Afraid to Trust Boats.
 At first they refused to trust their lives to our boats. They had witnessed the fate of the first boat and were afraid We finally carried twelve of the little ones out of the second-story window and then our fight back start ed. It needed the combined strength of every man on the boat to fight the current and prevent the boat from overturning. Then we were hampered by the cries of the children and at times the one matron we took with us would become panic stricken. After getting to shore the children were placed in the care of merchants of the town and we went back for another load.
 We received different reception on our second arrival at the asylum. shout of joy went up when they heard that the first load had been landed safely. A little confusion resulted from the natural anxiety of the tots to get into the boat. No one was hurt, however, and after five trips we sue ceeded in removing all the children and their attendants to safety.
 Children Go Hungry.
 "The merchants thanked us for what we had done One of the ma irons told us the children had not had a full meal for AS hours. They had run out of coal and were breaking up the furniture in the place for fire wood. The fire they Findled in the middle of the room, braving the danger of the entire building burning up."
 Brings 200 Peru Children.
 Charles H. Thacher and his wife, who live at 326O Groveland avenue, arrived here from Peru, Ind, with 200 Peru children, many of them now orphans.
 A man in Peru, having boat, de- manded $50 from Thacher to take the two away. There was another wom- an in the marooned house, and the boatman refused to take her
 "A shot was fired and the man fell out of the boat, dead" said MT. Thach- CT. MT. Thacher escaped with his wife and the other woman in the boat. A second man, Dr. Hupp, offered a boat man $1O0 to take his wife to a hospital, there being imminent visit from the stork. The man refused and the doc tor knocked him out of the boat with a brick A Winona college student rowed the doctors wife to the hos pital, where a baby was born, mother and child being saved
 Trio in Stolen Boat Drowned.
 Three unknown men were drowned at Peru when leaky boat, which they had stolen, sank. The boat was own ed by Oliver Wilson, a farmer who lives near the water line of the inter- urban tracks Wilson discovered the theft when the three men were 100 yards from shore. When they had gone half mile, they appeared in distress The Wilson family watched the men struggle in the water and disappear No effort has been made to recover the bodies.
 At Logansport heroic work was done by the crew sent from Lake Bluff and by the cadets from Culver Military academy in saving lives.
 Many pathetic incidents marked the work of rescue.
 In all more than 5000 persons were rescued from marooned homes and taken to safety in rowboats. Many lost everything they possessed. Horses, cattle and other animals were killed by the hundreds.