The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-25
phillip Schatzman is Saved
From Death by William
Strickler and William
Knight.
WAS RAISED IN WARSAW
Spent Last Twenty Years Of
Life in Montana Forum
ate Circumstances Re- !.
sponsible for Rescue.

Philip SCHdlZmdU, OI years OluS d
man who was born and raised at War
saw but who has lived in the west for
the last twenty FEARS, this morning
tried to take his own life by jumping
into the river from the Keokuk and
Hamilton bridge. He was saved from
drowning by William Knight and
William Strickler who put out In a
skiff and rescued lin after he had
floated several yards down from
the bridge and was nearly insen.
sible from the cold. Il:
Schatzman came from a good fam
lily at Warsaw and was wBll known
there number of years ago. He has
spent the last twenty years of his life
in the west, and came here yesterday
morning from Anaconda, Montana
where he had been living with his sis
ter while working in the great copper
smelter there. Schatzman evidently
has had some trouble with his family,
although he would not state what it
was, and had left Anaconda, comins
directly to this place.
On Bridge Early This Morning.
This morning early Sehatzman was
seen about the bridge which crosses
the river at this point. Shortly after
$3.50 he paid his toll and went onto
the bridge. No one seems to have
seen him after he went on the bridge,
although there are a nuysaer of men
working on the draw pier, and several
other men employed at the bridge.
Although he was very reluctant to
talk about the matter, Schatzman adj
mts that he jumped into the river.
There is no ice in the river at this
point. although the water Is bitterly
cold. He went in the water from -c.sse
bridge at a point just between the en-,
CINE house of the draw, and the pier
beyond. This is just outside the long
pier on which the draw rests. Al
though it is lot known just what
ti'ue Schatzman jumped into the riv-
er, 1t must have been but few min
/ utes before he was first seen. by
Bridge Engineer e. S. Cushman, who
gave the alarm
Heard Him Groaning in Water.
Cushman stated that he had step.
ped Just outside the door Of his room
to get bucket of coal when he heard
the man in the water He was not
calling for help but was groaning with
The intense cold. Schatzman had
chung to his suitcase when he jumped
from the bridge, and was clinging tc
1t when Cushman saw him. From his
position it looked to Cushman that
there were two men in the river, the
suitcase held by Schatzman giving
rise to the report that there were two
| men in the river.
Cushman Immediately notified the
bridge tender, C. w. DOUGH, whose
station is at this end of the bridge
DOUGH stepped outside his station ant
called to the two men, Srickler ant
might, who were on the bank of the
river Just below the bridge. These
Two men We're just starting on fish
ing trip, and their boat was all ready
lhey pushed out at once and rescued
schatznan, who by this time had
lloated down stream several yards.
Was Taken to Switch Station.
on landing at the shore, the mer
LOOK Schatzman, Immediately to tn.
union switch station at the foot o
VAN street. Schatzman was nearl,
frustrated from the cold, his clothin!
was frozen, and he was unable to hell
n,iAseif. Dry clothing was placed OF
nih' and he was carefully attended b.
nose at the station. After about |
nan hour he was brought to the pc
uce station. After he had been givel
sumo whiskey and coffee he SCENE,
70 be all right.
schatzman, who is German, CAV,