Cirlo Achille, 26, laborer, attempted to save George Palmer, 42, structural ironworker, from drowning, Tribes Hill, New York, December 12, 1910. Achille, who could not swim, walked on ice until he was 100 feet from the bank and at the edge of the ice, five feet from Palmer, who, badly injured, had fallen from a bridge across the Mohawk River into open water over eight feet deep. He took off his coat and, holding one sleeve, threw the other part of the coat to Palmer, who caught it. Achille, holding to the hand of a man who stood back of him, tried to draw Palmer onto the ice, but he broke through to his shoulders and let go of the coat. His companion assisted him out of the hole to safety. Palmer was rescued at that time by two men who arrived in a rowboat, but he died in a few minutes from the injuries sustained when he fell. 5873-488
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