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PATHETIC SCREAMS FOR HELP BRINGS RESCUERS. PR GENING MAN IZ TAKEN
PROM ICY HATER JUST BEFORE THE LAST GAS PH.
Chitina came near having New Year’s Eve marred by tragedy. It
was along about midnight that skreams ang yells' and ghroanz
arduzed somd of the citizens,' n Hellup Hellup' Safe me, Safe
me, Hellup, Ho God thave me, I burn, X drown, I die, Oh,
thave me, 'I freezzseee, Oh So Cold, Oh so YET« Help, Hellup,.
Hellllllup, Helllllllup. Helllllllllluuuuuuupppppp. Owwwwwww "
Three men rushed down to the river by the By. Buildings. The
River is eight feet wide and almost 16 inches deep. And there
they found a amn struggling in the water and going down for the
twentieth and last time. There seemed tc be no way to save the
poor creature till someone had a brilliant, idea and yelled so
that he could be heard above the roar of groans and splashing.
They yelled to Charlie to crawl in a straight line and not round
in a circle. Charlie replied, * I’ll thry ith ath a lath resorth
Ith iz my only ope " He tried it and with n sigh of relief the
watchers' on the shore saw that it worked for Charlie crawled out
and stood up on his side with icicles hanging all over him like
sourdough running over the edge of the pot.
One of the rescuers C
served at the front
all'thru the Great
r:ar, One of them j
worked for years in l
an emergency 1
hospital and the y
other served a long &
time as an officer
in a domestic relations'
Court,. But when
interviewed today by a .
reporter for the HERALD,they' all declared unanimously that they
had never heard such pitiful,agonizing skrearns.
11 7/as a great rescue and today Charlie 'hite is starting
the New Year with a firm resolve to---make that bridge
wider and out railings on the sides.
later in the night Ed heard of the fame that came to
Charlie by having fallen in the Creek -and. he went down and fell
in too,and got all wet but it was getting to be stale stuff
by that time so Ed had to crawl out by himself when he felt
like it. He said”' Thish ith.no fun, Ef I ed Charlie ’ere I’d
soak: ’im,”
Several of the Natives were buying and drinking lots of
boose last night but they did a lot of runnnnning around to
find it. Just as soon as we have room we are going to publish n
list of the white men who are selling and giving boose to the
Indians -so they wont have to run round so dangerously to find it