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Three Drown and Two Perish
From Exposure ii lDIs:VHlre.
CUNNING SKiFF OY.z:HE,jn,a.z10
Two Young Men Who Attempted Res.
cue Had Marrow Escape From Death
in Darkness of Night.

Two Young Men Who hteempIcd Res
cue Had Marrow Escape From Deaf,
in Darkness of Night.
Philadelphia, Jan. 10.-WLIe two
young men battled their way through
the crunching ice OF the Delaware
river, opposite Beverly, n. j., in an
effort at rescue, three men were
drowned
Others clung to an upturned boat
Two died soon afterwards from expo
sure. The rescuers barely escaped
with their own lives.
The dead are: Harry Yorty
forty-five years old; Irwin Schwan
thirty-eight years old: Charles PlelS
ter, thirty-f years old; Patrick
Flynn, forty-fye years old, and Jesse
Van SAINT.
The young men who made the gal
saving are Lucius Speigelmann and
Frank Speigelmann, his brother.
1t was shortly after midnight Satur-
day when Franklin Speigemann
reached his home from Phi!adelpAia.
He said that the night was as black
as a pocket and bitterly cold. He was
getting ready to go to bed when he
heard a faint cry drift in through his
open window.
Help, help" the cry came family
to him.
At first he thought that is was
imagination and that he had heard
only the wind. Then again it came:
Help, help" and a Succession OF
shrieks. Thoroughly alarmed the
Of his brother Lucius.
Lucius ran to the window and once
again came the faint cry. The two
are expert watermen, and stanch
skiff was lying ON the bank out OF
reach of the tide.
Out into the darkness Of the ri er
and the night they pushed the skiff.
The first thrust Of the current an1
.he ice swung the light boat around
and in a moment they had nearly l. st
their sense of direction. Then again
the cries CINE to them. seemingly
from the New Jersey side Of the river,
borne on the crest of the wind. They
were nearly exhausted when they saw
a small craft protruding from the ice.i
The brothers shouted, but It was fully
minute before u teeDie hail cams
back to them.
"Is that you, Yorty," shouted Frank
lin. Franklin knew that Yorty,
Schawn, Pfeister and Patrick Flynn
had crossed to Beverly.
Eyes, for Gods sake, help" came
back the voice of YCrty. Then the
two young men forced their boat
alongside the dark outline in the water
and saw that it was the overturned
cunning skiff in which their four
friends had crossed to Beverly. The
first man they reached was YOrty. He
was a huge bulk weighing more than
200 pounds, and in their eXhaus ei
condition the two brothers had a des-
perate struggle getting him into the
boat Yorty collapsed as soon as he
was drawn over the rail.
Both boats were twisting madly In
the current by this time, bat the two
brothers managed to seize the gar
ments of Schwan. He was even
heavier than Yorty, weighing more
than $50 pounds. With stratning arms
and sobbing breath the two youths
tried to get him over the side, but
were unable to do so.
my God, l can't get you in," sob
bed Franklin, and then he did one of
the bravest acts in the records of tie
Delaware river. This slight youth
tied a rope under his own arms and
then hitched the end around the huge
Schwan. He shortened the rope SO
that Schwan's arms rested or sagge
on the gunwale. "Now pull" he
shouted to his brother. "If he goes
over I'll GO, too
The other brother bent to the oars
but a great weight had been aided to
the load; and the brother at the en-
of the rope leaned back and kept his
friends head above the water.
1t seemed hours to the youth at t.e
oars and the che in the stern with
his terrible burden before they fought
their way thrcugh the thrashing ice.
Then came shore and the boat nearly
overturned. after a short re t they
dragged Schwan up on the bank and
then saw what had impedei Their pro
gress, Schwan had lashed himself t.
the overturned skif and the two
youths had been fCrcei to drag the
boat to shore with them.
Then Lucius ran nearly two mile
10 Yortys hCme to n tify his fanny
He returned with Yor.y's n-in-law,
James Schapcott. Yorty was still
breathing, and as they bent over him
they asked: "How many went down?'
Three" he gasped and then he
choked, tried to sit UP and fell back
dead. They next examined Schwan
hut he was beyond all aid.