Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 165, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1915 — NARROW ESCAPE FROM DROWNING IN RIVER [ARTICLE]

NARROW ESCAPE FROM DROWNING IN RIVER

Howard Clark Became Exhausted While Swimming and Is Rescued By Other Swimmers. Since the river has been so high since the recent bit storm, boys and men have been indulging in the sport of diving frcm the Washington street bridge and swimming down stream. The sport has been witnessed by large crowds. , Tuesday Howard Clark donned a bathing suit and dived from the bridge, but as he had swam down stream to nearly the creamery bridge he became exhausted and did not have strength to swim aginst the heavy current to the shore. Dr. Washburn, Lloyd Parks and others were sitting on -the bank at the bridge in bathing suits and as Clark passed under the bridge Dr. Washbum noticed he was in distress and called the attention of the others to his condition and as Clark sank under the water for the first time Washbujm and Parks dived into the water and towed him to the shore. It was a narrow escape and had no one been near Clark would have been drowned. He was all right in a few minutes but this mohung felt the effects of his experience and became sick enough to find the services of a doctor necessary. Some cf the swimmers are quite expert and a few of them have the courage to make the high dive from the 'top of the Washington street bridge but the majority content themselves with the dive from the railing of the bridge.