The evening times., 1898-08-23
ATTACKED BY 4 SHARK.
A Swimmers Leg Lacerated by
a FerOciOus Man-Eater.
BATHERS IN GREATDANGER
Savage Deni.enx of Southern Waters
Island-Prints of Sharp Teeth i'm q
Clerical Students Limb-The Fem
oral Artery Exposed.
23.-While

New York, Aug. 23-while
bathing yesterday afternoon at
the p IL ate per of Mount Loretto Mission.
Boone. who is studying for the priest
hood, was attacked by a shark and ter
ribly injured.
Boone Is twenty-five years old, and q
son Of DR.. w. C. Boone. of No. $50 West
Seventh Street. Piainfieid. N. ]. He has
been spending his vacation. after a hard
years study. at Mount Loretto Mission.
about his own age. Boone went to the
pier about o'clock. Putting on bathing
suits. both dived OF the pier. They are
strong swimmers. and went far out with
out a thought of danger. Then they
turned and started for shore.
They were swimming some distance
apart. and Boone was about $50 feet from
the end OF the pier when he felt his right
leg seized between the thigh and knee.
He felt no pain he says, at the time.
AT the same moment the water began to
swirl round him. To one side of him 1t
was lifted up slightly, in a sort of mound.
The shark had struck. and then turning.
before dashing away. had raised the wa
ter and thrown 1t into motion.
Boone realized that he was badly hurt
but he could s;ill swim. and he kept on
toward shore. He called TO White who
was farther out, to hurry, as something
had happened.
Reaching the pier he climbed ladder
fixed on its side. and looked at his leg.
The flesh on the inside, from point close
to the body, was torn down for six inches.
and hung nearly to his knee in a flap
three inches wide. The muscles were ex-
posed and some of the arteries.
White soon Joined him on the pier, and
though almost unnerved by the sight of
his friends wound, he set about to aid
him. He made a tourniquet from a shirt
and applied it to the leg to stop the hem
orrhage. and then ran for DR.. McNichol,
the mission physician.
He came in a carriage, and, after dress
ing the wound temporarily, drove Boone
with all haste to Pleasant Plains railroad
station. two miles away. Arriving there
they took a train for Stapleton.
Boone was taken in a police ambulance
to the Smith Infirmary. He was placed
under the influence of ether, and DIR. WILL
lam c. Walser and DR.. Frank Budd care
fuIly dressed the wound. They could easi-
ly make out twenty-five or thirty marks
of teeth They said they were beyond
doubt made by a shark.
1t took the doctors an hour and half
to pick up the cut veins and bind them
They found the femoral artery exposed
Had 1t been cut. they said, Boone would
have bled to death.
Unless some unexpected complication
arises Boone will recover. the doctors say
story reached here last night that S.
Osgood Peil, a real estate dealer, of No.
%, Fifth Avenue. had had an adventure
with shark on Sunday. 1t was said that
he started to swim across Long Island
Sound from Great Neck, L. l., on a wager
OF s9o When near the end of his Journey.
IL was stated, shark rushed at him
twice. striking him in the side, but not
woundins him. He was unnerved by the
shock' and was dragged from the water
ny man in sailboat who saw that he
was in trouble