Oren G. Buchner, 18, student, saved Sadye Guttery, 23, from drowning, Middletown, Illinois, June 16, 1910. Buchner extended his hands to aid Miss Guttery, who, unable to swim, had slipped from a sandbar into deep water in Salt Creek. She grabbed his wrists and pulled him into water over his depth, and both went under the surface. Miss Guttery’s hold prevented Buchner from swimming, but he trod water and they arose. The current carried them downstream, and, despite Buchner’s efforts, they went under again. When Miss Guttery released her hold on one of his wrists, Buchner then succeeded in swimming with her to the protruding roots of a submerged tree 75 feet below the sandbar, to which they clung until she was taken into a boat 25 minutes later. 6255-574
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