Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1901 — SAVED BY A HUMAN CHAIN. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SAVED BY A HUMAN CHAIN.

4 Chicaco Sinn's Remarkable Resells from Death by Browning. Hanging head downward in a human chain, four Chicago men stretched in x reselling line from the bank of the river

at 35th street to James O'Donnell, who was struggling in the water. Although the blood swelled the vqins In their heads, dimmed their sight and threatened to burst from its vessels, the men kept their hold on the drowning man when it seemed that aid would never come. They could not lift him from the river, but they kept him afloat. Moments that ■ecmed like ages passed with the men in torture and their strength was fast ebbing away when footsteps were heard approaching on ths bridge at that point. At the top of the human ehnin was Martlb Cor-

bett, who clung to the bridge and supported the weight of the three other men. He called to the men whose footsteps !he heard and they camo to his rcacue. Slowly the living chain was drawn up to the bank, nnd O’Donnell was rescued. O’Donnell was crossing tho 35th street bridge when he fell into the water. His cries attracted Policeman Malone, who ran to his rescue, aud finding he could not pull him from the river, called the other men and with them formed the living chain.