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COLUMBUSCASE INCLUDEL IN REPORThe yearly reporl of the work of the Carnegie Hero Fund CommlHBfoa which has Just been issued contain* lho following report on the rescue . ut Columbus by .J. nay Shephard: — No. 7hi—J. Ray Shephard, aged twenty-eight ( machinist's helper, saved J. Paul Phelps, aged twenty-two, clerk, and attempted to .save Mary A. Stevens, aged seventeen., from drowlnnlg nt * Columbus. Pa., February 16. 1911. Miss Stevensand Phelps were walking across the luo on Lake Columbus, the Ice broke and they went beneath the surface of the water, thirty feet from the bank where the water was more than six feel deep. When they came up they clung to the Ice. Shephard ran over five hundred feet to the Beene and was ten feet from those In the water when he broke thru the lea and fell Into the water to his shoulders. Miss Stevens and Phelps lost their graBp on the Ice and again went beneath the surface. Kicking: off his rubber boots Shephard swam to Miss Stevens and Phelps, who had been In the water between five and ten minutes, llo supported them and trod water. Miss Stevens soon slipped from his grasp and drowned and Phelps bocamo Unconscious. Shephard was becoming numb but he supported Phelps with one hand and swain until planks were laid on. the Ice and other men assisted him. Phelps revived. Awarded Bronze Medal and $1000 for a worthy purpose, as needed.
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Corry Semi Weekly Journal
Corry, Pennsylvania, US
Mon, May 25, 1914
Page 5
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Don R.
