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Ruby Hlazel Hudson, 36 years old was drowned yesterday when she went to the rescue of Fred Herberts,who had gone through the ice of Muskegan Lake at the slip near the plant of the Chase-Hackley Piano company's plant on Lake Shore Drive. Herberts was rescued by a man named Clawson,who shoved a board to him, but it was more than one hour later that the police received word that a woman had been drowned.

Herberts, who lived in a boat house near the scene and Mrs Husdon were taking a short cut across the lake to Bluff-en, when the man went through the ice in about 20 feet of water. Mrs. Hudson is said to have attempted to rescue him and to have gone in the water. Then, Mr. Clawson seeing the plight of Herberts, shoved a board to him.

Mr. Clawson said that he did not know the woman was in the water until he saw a sack floating around and then a woman's hat. A call was sent to the Police and Motorcycle Officer Edgar Johnson and William Caye, Health Department officer, hurried to the sceen. They obtained a boat and placed it in the slip. Mr. Caye saw the woman's head submerged only a few inches and pulled the body from the water. Dr.R.J.Harrington, city physician, pronounced the woman dead.

Although the water was 20 feet deep apparently the woman's body was being supported by a cake of ice and for that reason was near the surface. The water was extremely cold and Herberts had been taken to the boat house where he lived.

Mrs Hudson was born in Lakeside, Dec 29,1890. She is survived by two brothers, Benjamin of Grand Haven, and Louis of Muskegon, and a sister, Mrs. George Bryant of St. Joseph.