Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-01-09
HUNTERS ICEBOUND
IN CHESAPEAKE BAY
MARYLAND Gunners Needing Food
Walk Across Bay Ice
to Crisheld.

Six Baltimore sportsmen were ice
hound on Fox Island. II miles off Crls-
iaId Somerset county, Md, where they
had gone or duck shooting. from noon
last Saturday until Wednesday morning
Thrre of the hunters -Gustave Fast, "
Harry Oehrl and T. W. SmIth-wCrC
,hlc IN return To their homes last
Nedprsdav night only by making \ haz-
er1O,Is friD on the ice across Tangicr
straits The other three men-liarrIson
r,assard. William r. Pirscher and ]. q.
Orbrl brother OF Harry Oehrl-still are
IN the island and probably have not
y,i learned that their friends made the
s'ush,ld shore safely. \ food shortage
.hr,ateprl thcm. for the men found
IN Sunday that they had only enough
f,od IN lssf them three days, with con-
e,ryetIve handling. But on Tuesday ait
,rnoop a sled arrived from trlshcld bring
.ac enough food 10 carry them over the
.reeze with the help OF game that can DC
ilot on the island
rHRuu START on f2-NTLE WALK.
il hon tho sled arrived FROM Crls6cld
Tqcs.iav it brought telegram for Mr.
.,lhng him back TO the city He
,t,rn,jncj to TN the f3-mile walls across
hc Ic,. and Harry Oehrl and Mr.. smith
,nxlo,ls 70 get back TO their work, joined
3in,. They started at z 80 0 clock Nednes-
iav morning and got 30 Cnshcld about
1oon.
.That walk was worse than the trench
- IN France. ono Of them said Yesterday.
we had ia sound every foot 81 the way,
tor the thaw had begun, but each q Us
had a long pole and We manaCcd Is.
pome ~ lis broke through the ice In tact,
each of us did two or three tunes. tut we
had on hin boots and We did not 60 N
far above the knees.
The sportsmcn had gone 70 the FOX
gsland Rod and Bun Club, oi Which
NJ. P,rscher is president. or the week
md when thew got out i'll their hoat
~oinv from Criefield ~ tho cluh, they
ound ice piling and had "a fight Jams,
9ut Il was as easy to 20 ahead rs to turn
,srk. 50 they went on with their trip,
When boat which took then1 ~ the
sland started back 50 town, il got out only
4 mile. and after fighting around several
hours SATURDAY afternoon, returned rs
lose rs IL could 70 the island, where i Is
s-cbnund SUNDAY morning found the
lartv ice bound with not only the SIX
men IN the party, their cook and two
helpers to feed. hut the two men ot the
l,ost crew also II was then they began
rstioning food, for the freeze had stopped
the duck k-shooting. and even that source
~ foc.i ~ss closed 70 them.
Eu.PERs GO FOR room.
However. on Tuesday the two elpers
determined to try 70 walk % Crisheld for
food. The Others were able to watch
them for probably two miles, when they
Eere out Of sight. From that time I'M
I'll Tuesday afternoon, about 80 9 clock
xhen tbev carne in sight with the sled,
the Others did not know whether the help
rs had made the town or were drowned
The helpers and the hoat crew came
bacL IN C-isfcld with the three Balti-
-noreans Harry Oehri sand yesterday that
The regular club attendant. who was
not with the rsrty On tho island during
.he freeze, met them IN Crisfeld and
ssid h. would Try 20 set ont 10 the club
n Naat from the bay side. He viii take
o the remainder Of the party the first
levs that their friends made the Crls-
ed shore.