Edgar A. Current, 14, schoolboy, assisted in an attempt to save Chester Snowberger, 14, schoolboy, and saved Harvey Current, 16, schoolboy, and Albert Nierman, 24, driver, from drowning, Fort Wayne, Indiana, August 6, 1909. Edgar and another boy swam to Chester, who had become distressed in a hole in the St. Mary’s River in water six feet deep. The boys tried to swim with Chester to the bank, but the latter struggled and repeatedly dragged them under the surface. Finally, after pulling them under, Edgar broke loose, but Chester did not come up and was drowned. When Edgar came up, he noticed his brother Harvey and Albert, who weighed, respectively, 35 and 55 pounds more than he did, struggling a short distance away. He swam to them and shoved them into shallow water. 4213-512
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