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Companions Pull Young Man Back to Life Out of Silver Creek.Edward Sehlenfeer, of Orel, Perry county, a conductor 011 the State and Vincennes street car No. 32 in the evening, wvnt out with several companions to take a swim in the lake at Glenwood Park Monday at about 11 o,clock and while out he was seized with cramps and sank. F. E. Wood and Robert Best saw his predicament and when he did not come up imtnedi-j ately they dived after him and brought him up and ashore, where they immediately set to work at resuscitating him by compressing and expanding the chest and rolling him on a barrel.At the same time some one phoned for the pnhuotor at No. 2 Engine House and Chief Louis Strack and Frank Dudley made a record trip to Glenwood, going in -I minutes from the time the alarm reached them. When they arrived Mr. Best and his assistants had already pumped the water out of Schlecker and lie was coining to.Chief Struck took him to his boarding j house, with Mr. Bowman, Vincennes j and Chartres street. 1i 1Schlenker seems to have lost con-1 sciousness but a few moments. He told ! Chief Strack that he seemed to think of j lots of things. He knew when he touched ! the bottom and felt one of his rescuers catch hold of him and when gotten ashore tie ielt the men working with him but could not talk.
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New Albany Weekly Ledger
New Albany, Indiana, US
Wed, Aug 02, 1916
Page 8
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