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- After 12-Hour Ordeal
COAST GUARD RESCUES 5 MEN FROM LAKE ERIE
SANDUSKY - Five men, including an Akron attorney,
today were recovering at Sandusky Memorial Hospital after a
Coast Guard rescue ended a 12-hour ordeal in Lake Erie waters
for the men.
Reported suffering from exposure but in satisfactory
condition today are: Atty. Edward Krutel, 32, Akron; Frank Talosi,
40, Alliance; Wilbur Haidet, 37, Bernard Ottle, 37, and Marvin
Brahler, 40, all of Louisville, O.
The five were flipped into Lake Erie when their rented boat
overturned sometime last evening, off Huron lighthouse, according to
the Coast Guard. The boat anchor had become entangled in a commer-
cial fishing net, and in their efforts to free it, the men turned the boat
over. It had been rented at Erics Livery, Sandusky, late yesterday,
reportedly for a three-day period.
ALL NIGHT SEARCH
The Coast Guard search for the men was launched after the
wife of one of the fishermen called Huron police to report them missing.
Police in turn called the Erie County Sheriffs Department which brought
the Coast Guard into an all-night search.
At 5:20 a.m. today, the C.G. boat found the five me, clinging to
the overturned boat at the net off Huron. Three of the men, Ottle, Talosi,
and Brahler, were rushed to Sandusky by ambulance and the other two
men by police car.
The men and their wives had rented a cottage at Grand Forest
Beach, and the wives became alarmed when the five failed to return for
supper last night. The boat, they reported today, turned over just 15
minutes after theyd gone out into the lake.
EFFORT FUTILE
During the night, a craft came within 100 yards of the men
clinging to the overturned boat, but their efforts to attract attention were
futile, and the other craft roared off into the darkness again.
Today, an attending physician reported the five suffering from
combined shock, skin burns, and exposure. The burns, he reported, came
when the men, in an effort to obtain something buoyant to help in their
struggles to remain afloat, emptied a can of gasoline. The gasoline, spreading
on the water surface, burned their skins.
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