Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 201, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1918 — SET WITS TO WORK [ARTICLE]

SET WITS TO WORK

Woman Proved Herself Heroine in Emergency. With Husband Disabled by Broken Leg She Employed Unique Signal to Bring Help That Might Save Him. The following would be almost unbelievable if the facts were not the talk of the community and if it were not substantiated by the, various participants. " In Penobscot bay, three miles from Islesboro, is a little island known as Mark Island, owned by Preston Player, a State street broker of Boston, and he there maintains a big summer place. The keeper is Ralph Collamore of Lincolnville, who in the winter, .with his wife and two children, makes his home on the island in a little cottage. . " On Wednesday, January-23, he took the boat and started for Islesboro. Three hours were taken in making the trip of three miles by water. He came back and upon landing and pulling the boat up onto the shore on Mark Island he pulled the boat over onto him, pinning him down and breaking his leg. His wife kept looking for her husband’s return and finally, attracted by his groans, found _ him pinned under the boat. -She is a frail woman but with him hanging onto his injured limb, she managed to drag him up to the cottage. There with the aid of a leather wallet and sticks she set the leg the best she could. There they were practically isolated and help was needed badly. Mrs. Collamore, full of pluck and determination. to get help, went to the Player summer home. There, stje man- , aged to set agoing the electric dynamo by which the place is lighted. She turned on every light in that big house and put on also a re<j light. The . lights were run all day Thursday and not until 5:45 Thursday afternoon was the light noticed at Dark Harbor. Telephone calls were sent to the naval station and the tug Zizania started to Dark Harbor to see what was the trouble. Dark Harbor was reached about 9:30 Thursday night. There no one knew what was the trouble at Mark island. The Zizania cut her way through the ice, in some places 8 and 10 Inches thick, for three miles to the island. Captain Sherman and nine men went ashore. They rtade their . way to the lighted house and there found no one. Groping along 1 ’ in, the darkness they were frightened by the sudden uprising of a flock of turkeys from a tree. Then they came upon the cottage in total darkness with the door open but no signs of life about. Going in they found the courageous little woman asleep, the Injured man half asleep and both children slumbering. The tug went back to Dark Harbor and there found a doctor who was ' brought back to Mark Island. The Zizania remained at Mark island until four o’clock Friday morning when the “Injured man was attended to.— Bangor Commercial.