The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-06-26
No. $40 East Eighty.ninth street, fore
man p lesser; wife and six children.
HIS BODY IDENTIFIED.
Andrew Webster Was Washed
Ashore at the Highlands.

ing last night and early this morning
number of people visited Undertaken
Morris's morgue to view the dead body
which was washed ashore yesterday.
VIM. Webster identified the body this
morning as that OF his brother. Andrew,
thirty-six years Old, of 534 East Eleventh
street. New York. Webster was a mar
ricd man and had three children. lie
was a blacksmith, in the employ OF Lang
& Co.. on First avenue. between Twen-
ty-third and Twenty fourth streets.
From the description given the man
was first believed to be Alexander John
son. OF 800 Third avenue. New York.
Mrs. johnson, who is In n delicate condi-
ton. was too Ill to make the journey to
Long Branch. and ]. r. Dietz came
here for her.
Dietz says Thomas Towson. OF Brook
lyn, who was rescued, presented Johnson
with an excursion ticket to 80 to the
Fishing Banks on the Nicol week ago,
and he tried his utmost to save him Sun
day, but found It impossible to do So
The body was also partially identified
last night by Augustus Meyer as that
OF his brother-in-law. Theodore Frey. Il
fresco painter. Frey lived with his wife
and two children at One Hundred and
Forty-thrd street and Norris avenue
He was induced to go on the excursion
by Christian Hahn. who Is also believed
to have been drowned.
| Many friends of the remaining lost
ones are patro,lng the beach this morn
ing between Sandy Hook and Long
Branch watching for bodies.
SANDY HOOK. N. j.. June 26.-The
Sandy Hook Life-Saving station re-
ports that no bodies from the tug James
y. Nicol or anything whatever from
here. The New York police boat Patrol
IL down the bay. for the purpose of re-
covering bodies Y any can be found;
2s.-Mnny sorrowinE friends Of the men
who went down on the Nicol are still
here unxiously waiting for the bodies 70
washed ash1re psh n1are hoa say WiI
come ashore until the wind changes n
10 now blowing directly off shore; The
friends Of the dead have formed Int
from sea bril- to Sandy Hook, and alsc
the shore OF the bay 1T Atlantic High.
lands. Wreckage from the tug Is being
washed ashore.
i. Jaretsky. of 100 Bowery. called a
Police Headquarters this morning am
said that he was convinced his sor
drowned from the tug ]. d. Nicol las
Sunday afternoon.
He said that he was sure that his soI
was drowned because the friend tina
accompanied him on the excursion an'
was rescued said he saw Jaretsky g.
down.
The missing man wore a soft. soft 9 'vsin
. and chain; his right leg was sh0rte
than the. other. and he wore higi
shoe ar ht haa o %0m hs rsh
arm, and on his left arm were hi
Neil Bonner. an engineer. Of IS crosbi
street. living at 49, Mess s,ng nssseneer
Of the tug Nicol at Police Headquarter
Charles drambs. It's ,J East Fourth ,s street
fayette place, living in Harlem.
Max Pfannenschmid. twenty-fS 1,
years old Of s isS seyen man al az Eas
Houston street. ran around to Polio
Headquarters to-day to inquire ro wh HSa,,
boy ,s 81 c hrs Street. one OF
4 missing, had been recovered.
He was told that It had not and ,
: walked to the missing mans nome
He returned to his work. and was seize
I with a violent At. and four men sough
to overpower him. He broke away re
e peatedly, ana klcheu anu oi' a. e'ei
t one near.
/ An ambulance was summoned fror
st. Vincents Hospital. but Pfanner
: schmid had recovered when II had al
I rived. The surgeon declared 1t case
e Mrs. Octavia Thompson. Of 36 Garnt
: street Brooklyn, called at the Hamilto
8 avenue police station. Brooklyn TIL
morning and reported that her husband
n John, was one of the fishermen on boar
the Nicol
i; Thompson has not been heard frol
b morning, and Mrs. Thompson says sh
has every reason to believe that he pei
|, ished with others when the tug went
the bottom.
d Thompson Is thirty mine years old, fiy
: feet four inches In height, has dark CON
J. plexion. dark mustache. was dresse
In a light blue suit, straw hat stripe
dents sht BY ana moe on his temple