John F. Daly attempted to save Minerva M. Currie and James R. Foley from drowning, North Reading, Massachusetts, December 20, 1925. While skating on Martins Pond 175 feet from the bank, Miss Currie, 23, and Foley, 22, salesman, broke through the ice and went into water eight feet deep. Daly, 24, assistant buyer, skated toward them and then crawled 15 feet to the hole, over ice which for five feet of the distance was less than two inches thick. Miss Currie was then holding Foley’s hand, and Foley was submerged. After making an effort to have Miss Currie take hold of his sweater, which he tossed to her, Daly knelt about six inches from the edge of the ice and succeeded in getting her to grasp it. About that time Foley sank. The ice then broke under Daly, and he fell on top of Miss Currie. She grabbed him, and both were submerged. Daly got free after a struggle and came up under the edge of the ice. Another man then arrived and pulled Miss Currie out of the hole and then got Daly out. Daly was semiconscious but was revived. 28182-2260
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