Hobo Hero Saves Two From Death in Water

"Mike" Sheehan Rescues Pals From a Grave in the Mississippi.

Drags One Unconscious Man From River, Then Goes for Another.

Michael Sheehan, who claims to be nut'in but a hobo, was the hero of a double rescue from the Mississippi river, when by his courage and presence of mind , he saved William Danehy and Frank McCoy, two fellow hoboes, from being drowned in the swift current of the east channel near the Tenth avenue bridge.

The three "knights of the road" had bunked during the night on the east river bank. Danehy, who was the first to get up, walked out on a log to perform his morning ablutions and while so engaged fell into the stream. He shouted for help, and his two companions hurried to his rescue.

McCoy, who was the first to take to the water, dived in and struck his head against a sunken log with force enough to cut a bad gash in his forehead and render him unconscious.

Sheehan jumped in after him as he was being carried down stream, and after a hard struggle brought the unconscious man ashore.

Then Sheehan turned his attention to Danehy, who had also been caught in the current. By dint of hard swimming he managed to reach him and get him to shore, although both men had a hard fight with the current.

Returning to where McCoy lay unconscious and bleeding, Sheehan, aided by the exhausted McCoy, finally succeeded in bringing their companion back to his senses.

Later, the three bedraggled figures, Danehy with his head done up in the lining of Sheehan's coat and McCoy minus a shoe wended their way across the river to the office of Police Surgeon Taft.