John Murdock, 35, farmer, attempted to save Leland V. Whiting, 12, from drowning, Clitherall, Minnesota, December 1, 1910. Murdock, fully dressed, with the temperature at zero, dived to the bottom of an eight-foot-wide air hole in the ice on Clitherall Lake, where Leland had sunk in water 14 feet deep. He caught Leland by the coat and swam to the surface with him, finding it necessary to swim about three feet toward the middle, to avoid coming up under the thick ice at the edge of the hole. Several boys threw Murdock a rope and helped get him and Leland out. Leland could not be revived. 5950-491
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