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The Key West Citizen
Key West, Monroe County, Florida
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In Redding, Conn., a woman clung to a tree in the raging Saugatuck River for six hours after her car with her husband plunged in. Rescuers nearly reached her with ladders and ropes, but she let go from exhaustion and was swept away. Her husband is believed drowned. The couple was tentatively identified as Mr. and Mrs. Edward A. Phoenix.
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REDDING, Conn. ( )—For six hours the woman clung to a tree in the raging Saugatuck River while 30 rescuers made one attempt after another to reach her.
Then, with the rescuers only 20 feet away, she was too exhausted to hold on longer.
She let go and was swept down the river.
Rescuers said a car carrying the woman and her husband went into the river. She got out and caught hold of a tree about 500 feet from shore. Her husband was believed drowned.
The couple was tentatively identified as Mr. and Mrs. Edward A. Phoenix of Redding.
Rescuers brought floodlights to the scene and first tried to reach the woman by boat. This failed.
Albert Venning, chief of the West Redding volunteer fire department, started to swim out to her but the water was too swift.
Finally a network of ladders and ropes was extended outward to a point where rescuers were only 20 feet from the woman. It was then that she let go and was not seen again.
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Redding, Conn.
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the woman let go from exhaustion and was swept down the river, not seen again. her husband was believed drowned.
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A car carrying the woman and her husband went into the raging Saugatuck River. She got out and clung to a tree 500 feet from shore for six hours while 30 rescuers attempted to reach her by boat, swimming, and finally with ladders and ropes, getting within 20 feet before she let go.