The times., 1898-08-15
Three Young Men Drowned and
Five Rescued.
THEY ROCKED THE BOAT
The Party Was Returning From An-
aIezunn Island. Whittier Ii Had
Gone 10 Play BaIl-A Little broth
er OF One of the Victims Was First
to Give the Alarm,


nineteen years old. living at No. 2o64
Thnty-second Street; John Henderson,
twenty-five years old, living at the corner
OF Thirty-fourth and t Streets, and Law
renee Warwick, nineteen years old, living
at No. l737 Thirty-fourth Street.
The other members of the party were
BENJAMIN Royce, Charles Mertz, Robert
Coxion, Henry serrins and Henry Mocka-
bee, all of whom escaped.
The party, with a number OF other
Young men, went TO Analostan Island
yesterday morning to play game OF pall-
The team they were 10 play with failed
"a arrive az the grounds, but they decided
to remain on the island all day. 1t was
stated they had with them some hquid
refreshments and perhaps some OF theiii
imbibed too freely and when returning
home they were feeling very jolly. sew
eral boats had left the island before the
i'll fated one departed, and as soon as tiey
reached this side Of the river the oeeu-
nants OF them went directly TO tner
homes.
When the last boat containing the un-
fortunate party reached the middle of the
than some of the occupants were rocking
the boat. Two of their number were
standing up some distance apart. indulg-
ing in playful sport, when each LOST ms
balance and fell into the river, quickly
sinking out of sight. They soon arose 10
the surface and grasped the sides OF the
hoat IN keep from going down again
rtsa hnn
throwing the entire party into the river
Some of the men could swim, but most
of them could not, and the latter chung
10 the bottom Of the boat until they were
taken off by rescue party that was sent
from the boat house near by.
As soon as the rescued men reached
the shore they Ief; the vicinity of the
river as fast as they could They did not
stop TO tell anything of their compan-
ions who were drowned The first news
that was had of the drowning was re-
ceived by Policeman Pratt on NJ Street
near Thirty-second, when Eddie Hender-
son. the smaller brother of one Of the
men drowned, ran up the street crying
and when asked by the policeman what
troubled MN S2lO. MY DipNAti SNA-Ai'A'
was drowned down there"
Policeman Pratt Immediately took the
boy in hand and started TO investigate the
matter
The station house was notified and WORD
was sent TO the harbormaster, and the
patrol wagon was sent 10 the scene 10
carry any bodies that might be recovered
10 me morgue. As soon as they heard of
the affair Joseph Ritter and Edward
Bremmer got into boat and began drag
ging for bodies.
AT about half past o'clock the body
of Charles Royce was found.
The men in the boat Immediately took
the body 10 the boat-house, where the po-
lice were waiting, and every effort was
made to resuscitate it, but all was in vain.
Not satisfied with their own efforts TO re-
store life TO the drowned man, they TOOK
the body to the Emergency Hospital, but
on arriving there it was pronounced dead
by the surgeons. The remains were then
brought TO No. station and put in he
dead house.
One of the men who escaped made the
about a hundred feet of the wharf M4rtz
and Ben Royce, who were standing in
the middle of the boat commenced 10
handy words and hit at each other. All
of a sudden he continued, they 10th
went overheard. nobody knows ldst now,
and when they came TO the top Of the
water they both caught hold of the boat
and pulled 1t over. Then we all went
overheard and I struck out for sno-e. 1
do not know what became of the Others,
and did not know any of them had been
drowned until some one told me .boLt it
little while ago.
The drowned men are all well known
in Georgetown and they have always
borne good regulations. Royce, the only
one whose body was recovered, lived with
his parents. He had no particular trade
but worked at anything he could find
10 do. His mother was Frustrated with
grief when she learned of the death of her
son.
John Henderson, the oldest one of the
trio, was twenty-five years old and was
a tile setter by trade. He lived with his
father. When Mr.. Henderson, the father,
heard of the drowning he went imme-
diately to the wharf and at a late hour
last night was helping the men who
were graphing for the remaining two
bodies. Lawrence Warwick was ap-
prenticed to a painter and was making
good progress in his trade He was an
orphan, his father, Policeman Warwick,
having died some years ago, leaving sew
eral children.
The coroner viii probably hold an in
quest as soon as the other bodies are re-
covered. when it win be decided If any
person is 10 blame for the accident.
One of the things brought out by the
affair is the strange way the harbor
patrol boat is manned. When Lieut..
Swindells of the Seventh Precinct. noti-
fed Harbormaster Sutton of the drowning
he was told that the boat would be
brought up there if the crew could be
found, If not he would have to wait till
morning. When asked about the matter
last night police official said he did not
believe the crew of the boat were re-
Quired to be at their posts on Sunday
or after 10 o'clock at night at any time.
1t il possible that the matter will be in
vestigated and crew provided for the
boat at all hours.
AT an early hour this morning the bodies
OF Henderson and Warwick had not been