The evening world. Newspaper, February 5, 1900, Page 10

HN SIF Vain Chase After Boat- man Caught in Ice Floe. LOSES OARS IN BAST RIVER HURLED BY SHOCK FROM “L” TO STREET! One Passenger Clutched An- other as He Was Falling and Both Were Hurt. Tugs to Rescue Unable to Reach Man Crying for Help. put out, but they saw in that there was no need to get at the man, as his boat down the river with the : iH put about after the man, minutes’ work In the ice, he boats along well, it the open boat with the going faster than they From the foot of Twenty-stxth street to drift down and Brooklyn shore until he was Bay. William ané Charles Start, two fish- / ermen, Itving in Cans! street, Stapleton, > B. 1., reached home last night after « bh. had been given up as dead by their e Getting an order last Wednesday for . sell in their catboat for the fishing | —s Bround. A westerly gale was blowing. nd thelr Iittle boat labored hard r ‘When off Coney Island Point the beat \ Sprang « leak. They tried to stop it, ‘But could not. They took turns pump- ing and bailing, and, wearing tried to get te Bath Beach. But the ‘Water gained ateadity, and {t looked ff their boat would sink before they| One man was almost electrocuted in Could make a landing. sight of a thousand persons on the sy dan Mc vaies wiy na0 tae tant Brooklyn Elevated Railroad this morn- Game to a stop. Just before this a huge |!PX and another received such a violent Wave swept over the deck and flooded | charge of electricity that his right arm |, the cabin, carrying away their pro-| was completely paralyzed. alone, A Myrtle avenue train, drawn by @ Someth! teak. a) eee cae ne eae und ime | motor car, had come to a sudden step ‘They plugged the leak up and were able | Just south of the City Hall station or ti float off the shoal at high tide and|the way to the bridge, One of those anchor about one hundred yards from | accidents so numerous recently on tiv whore. They passed a miserable night | road, the burning out of a fuse, bet ae ox iis Wetiaes sore = caused the stoppage, and as train after at they hed to do without heat. it |tfain from Ridgewood, Gast New York was terribly cold, and the vartous other sections came ft , | along they remained in a long motion- in the morning they found their boat | ics ine while efforis were made to Was frosen in, but the ice wus not thick | ger ihe disabled motor car in motion @sough to walk on. They tried to Cut! impatient at the delay and anxious their way out with oars and boat-hook. |). fegch New York, the passengers But made little _, climbed from the cars to the narrow ? Weather continued very cold and | yiankway fee kept growing thicker, Pes skirting whe tracks. ey | wa cautiously along to atlered| from hunger and thirst. At! Tait ciation where thee sera Yast William said be would make an | pes: qney could to the platform of Bttempt to walk to shore on the slender | station, To cross the tracks they were . | compelled to over a deadly ‘third fame prety near being my finish,” | ral.” fearful irked with thousands “I took the oars and | of death- ‘They BT ? a he 5 3 . é i ; i * much as posal-| there, oo, were scores of trolley wires, ein, and !t was aii my | many improperly insulated, whose bare do to rescue me, I thought | conper rubbed dangerously against that of wet and cold when he | magnificent conductor—the steel rails. to the bort.” THOUSANDS IN DANGER. night the fishermen wve-| F GLInE ashore, where hot! Over this network, twenty feet above se, Bit where they | ine ground, wherein lurked death to all needed. It did not oovur tO | caught in the trap, perhaps « thousand Message to their wi sale, Th T wives | persons picked their way between 7.3) ont mod Worked ce mat Deck | and § o'clock thie morning innocent of a Forked in the Ice all tho great danger beneath them Me eek? they nad got | POF thirty minutes not a wheel turned the little ice feld and into clear on that part of the structure, Suddenly was 10 o'clock when they! a locomotive came tearing along from jeton. lithe vrifge, having been sent to the as- ai | ho another tre ‘with “che | sistance of the disabled train. Tt was at end water and ice. this juncture that the warning cry wae eit Zz £f3i il in were mei olts of electricity, And | 4), Ovewda of Belated ‘1.’ Passengers Saw Bernet Hurled to the Street, —_—————+ raised to the crord on the board “Make for the station platform! Quick! Quick! A (thousand votess roared tn untson. 4 Bleecker street had Just reached and, stepping a #4 to climb to the platfor STEPPED ON ELECTRIC RAIL. Hie foot came in contact with the heavily charged third rall, and « mighty charge of electricity shot through his body. With an agonizing “Oh! he dropped, his body almost rigid, There Was an opening in the tracks at the’ |*pot and through this the body dropped. Fortunately Bernet recovered consctous- ness, and his rigut hand grasped the Wires strung under the tracks. He had been accompanied by his fAt- teen-year-old brother Gus, who quickly answered the cry for help. He caught Frank's hand, but received « shock that made him instantly let go. The wun- fortunate brother held on a few seconds neer and then the wire gave way and he dropped to the street Policeman McKenna was standing in rway of the Adams street sta- A hundred feet away. When he saw the body fall he ran over and ss he attempted to pick Gp the prostrate form Bernet, stil clutching part of the broken wire in his hand, called out: POLICEMAN IN DANGER. “Look out. Ite full of electricity.” He was picked up and carried inte the station-house, where an ambulance surgeen from the Brooklyn Hospital made an examination. He found the young man suffering severely from shook, and ordered his removal to the hospital The younger brother, Gus, had quite vecoversd from his shock and was able te go home. jand the boy's influence did little to change the drunken and worthless pair The story now told Is that when Col |line Killed both men he knocked Mre | Kipp down and stood over her with nis \inife. He was ready to plunge ft into jher heart. She became hystertcal and | pleaded in a whisper for her life. 8) Collins would not Meten, He told his b nan —— wife that he was going to murder Mrs Kino and then throw all three bodies Was About to Kill (si"*. Collins went out on deck to see If the coast was clear. The boy followed his father and there begged him not to add another murder to the double tragedy The boy suggested the story that war told to the police, viz: That both men had been killed while fighting @ duel. gs the other canal-boat LE WEBSTER DAVIS HAS REACHED BOER CAMP. LORENZO MARQUES, Hi DELAGOA Gtater Assistant ecretary of the In- " a party of nes] ~~ ‘The bay then helped carry one body to} NY BAY, Feb, &—Webster Davis, the United accompanied by te at the head lsager of the o r a. WOMAN SAVES WIN FROM RIE. Insane from Grip He Jumped and She Threw Him a Rope. Mrs Ellen Wolf, wife of Capt. Charles of coal barge No. @, at t street and the Rast River, man from drowning at 1 O'clock this porns. faved ac ine, a, “selirjous tt into, the front grips Mure Wolf heard | hy to. Mr et no mateh for Mer screams sitracted A: ind George Eldridge, BLACK DRESS GOODS. 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