The evening world., 1889-07-15
HE DIED WITH HIS BROTHER.
A YOUNG HERO SWEPT UNDER A SWIFT
RUNNING CURRENT.

Charles Escnssi wadcs UnconHcionaly Int
Deep Water - Ills Brother Emanuel
Makes u Vain Attempt to save Hin and
Roth Are Drowned Their BereRved
Parents Len Childless.
The police are still looking for the body OF
young Emanuel Escossi. who, with his
brother Charles, was drowned yesterday af-
ternoon while bathing in the Harlem River,
at One Hundred and Fifty.ninth street. They
lived with their father ut 7S2 Washin gton
street. and were his only children. Emanuel
wns sixteen and his brother Charles fourteen.
They started out Yesterday morning, bright
and early, for n ramblo in High Bridge Park,
intending to return home in time for supper.
II was we'll along in the afternoon, and thoy
were just on the point of starting downtown
again, after a pleasant day spent in roaming
about the cool groves along the banks of the
Harlem, when 1t was proposed that they
should wind up their days outing by taking
II plunge i'll the river.
There were some boys in swimming near
the old dock just above the New York and
Northern Railroad bridge. and they joined
the merry crowd that was splashinG around
in the muddy water near the shore.
Emanuel was the first one in, and he called
to his vounger brother to follow him. Neither
of the brothers could swim.
Tho wac or at that point is shallow near the
shore, which n little distance out ends alb
rupily i'll n perpendicular ledge where a mar
row channel has been dledged out for the
deep-draught tugs and narrow steamboats,.
There the tide runs swifiest at ebb or flow
aud the current is then always SO strong that
the most powerful M cannot possibly
make headwav against IT.
Not knowing the danger Charles waded out
beyond the other boys and was urging them
TO follow him, when suddenly he went over
the ledge and disappeared from view.
A moment afterwards he ieappeared, aud as
he struggled in the swiftly flowing current
which was carrying him rapidly away he
screamed for help.
Emanuel, not realizing his W danger,
and only thinking of saving bis younger
brother, rushed out TO his assistance. He
reached him, but ut the same time no found
himself hey nd h y depth.
Then began II desperate struggle for life.
Charlie chung to his elder brother. and to.
gether they were carried down stream at a
terrific rate. They screamed and shouted
for holp. hut the boys on the shore were
panic. stricken. and could do nothing.
Some men i'll a rowboat not far of saw the
two boys in the water. but thought they were
only PLAYING and made no attempt to rescue
them, although they could easily have
lone so.
Twice the lads sank and came to the sur
face again. They were too much exhausted
even to call out and went down for the last
time in each others arms within q few feet of
the old dock. after having been carried about
n hundred feet down stream by the current.
AS soon as the police had been notified of
the accident they began to drag the river. At
Z o'clock they found the body of Charles, the
younger brother. and they only gave up the
search for the other When it became too dark
to work.
The parents of the two boys were COM
pIetely stunned by their grief when the news
of their loss reached them.
Emanuel Escassi's body will probably be
recovered to-day.