Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1901 — High-Diver Reacues Two. [ARTICLE]

High-Diver Reacues Two.

“Jack” Smith, a former member of the Seventeenth United State* infantry, leaped from a Big Four bridge into the Scioto river, a distance of sixty feet, near Columbus, 0., and rescued two men from drowning. Smith was standing on the bridge with a surveying party, when a boat in the river below containing two men capsised. The men were In imminent danger, and Smith, hearing their cries for assistance, dived from the bridge, sixtytwo feet above the water, and carried both of them ashore.