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Daring
Rescue at Westport Point
Two men and a woman, employees of Laura's Restaurant, were saved in a daring operation. The restaurant split
in two and floated into the Westport River. One section drifted northward
and was beached.
Miss Silvia reported for work at 9:30. She was a waitress. Macomber, who lived across the street from the building, worked in the kitchen. Hickey said water began pouring into the restaurant about 10:30 A.M. The Silvia woman and Macomber were trapped in the kitchen. Their cries for help could not be heard in the howling wind. The building was swept away within a half hour.
Mrs. George Mintz of 241 Union Street, whose cottage at Westport Point suffered heavy water damage, was the one credited with alerting neighbors to the disappearance of Hickey, the Silvia woman and Macomber. |
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Rescuers
in bobbing skiffs defied the storm to save three lives at Westport Point.
Paul
DeNadal, 15, and William White, both of main road, Westport Point, removed
James Hickey, 64, trapped in his quarters above the south side of the
building. The rescuers first chopped a hole in the roof above the room
in which Hickey was barely able to keep his head above water for nearly
five hours. The rescue was finally effected by smashing a window which
had ironically stayed intact despite the severe buffeting that sheared
the building from its foundation and sliced it. 
Roger
Reed, first mate on the fishing boat, Nora S, teamed up with Augustus
Robillard to extricate Natalie Silvia, 20, of 601-A Russell Mills Road,
North Dartmouth and Harry Macomber, 64, of Westport Point, from the other
half of the restaurant structure. 
Chef
George Kourafas of 275 Russell Mills Road, South Dartmouth, who considered
himself lucky to have had the day off yesterday, said Hickey was rescued
about 2 P.M. That was about the time that Reed and Robillard got to the
Silvia woman and Macomber.