The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-06-09
YESTERDAYS HIGH WIND.
MARROW ESCAPES OF THOSE ON
 THE WATER.
Bridgeport Man Nearly Drowned at Savin Rocl-Three Yale Men Upset or Morris Covein n Cat Boat and Narr oE- ly Escaped nrowning - Blowing Thir- ty-two Miles an Hour-Dumage to Trees and Property in New Haven.

I Yesterdays wind, which reached g speed of thirty-two miles an hour sev- eral times during the afternoon did | damage through this section of the state and it was only through the ef- forts of some people in both Savin
 Rock and Morris Cove that life or two was not lost.
 At Savin Rock a man wandered out
 on the long pier and half an hour after ward he was sorry. His name is George Collins of Bridgeport. Collins hat blew off, brand new one at that, and he
 started after 1t. He procured a boat,
 and by the time he got under way the
 hat was a hundred yards distant. The
 man was carried out beyond his new
 hat, and he showed by his inability to
 manage his boat that he was in great
 danger of drifting out into the sound
 with the receding tide. This being
 noticed by the people on the pier, some
 
 and appraising them of the danger of the lone boatman, they put after him, and picked up the lost hat on thelr way. The life-savers reached him in d few minutes and lowed him to the dock, after a hard row In trying to climb up to the dock, at the same time bow ing his grateful thanks to his rescuers, he lost his hold and fell into the water, much to the amusement of several hun dred Sunday pleasure seekers.
 While this act was amusing hundreds on the West shore, across the bay in Morris Cove harbor, there were even more exciting times. Three Yale men went out in a dory late in the afternoon and capsized near the fishnet, nearly opposite the Pequot house. The sea was heavy and the men seemed bewild- cred. They had one sail up half reefed. Suddenly those watching them from the shore saw them put off again. They had sailed perhaps 300 feet when their boat All three men disappeared from view for moment, but reappear- ed and were seen elinging to the boat, which was still bottom up. Again the men disappeared. but again got hold of the boat. Three rowboats had put out from shore to rescue them and one reached them just in the nick of time,as the men were exhausted. The boat that rescued them had hardly started back before the dory sank. The rescued men were taken to Lighthouse Point. About twenty of the dories of the Corinthian yacht club had been out in the after
 I,,+ I1I Ip fore the capsizing took place. The wind was a heavy one from the north west, and rolled up the waves in fine style.
 Mrs Amor, wife of the lighthouse keeper was i'll yesterday and the assist ant keeper put ashore for a doctor. The two reached the light all right but the return trip was not so successful Their boat was carried out between the break water and the point for some distance, put after two hours row landed.
 Several trees were blown down 1t Point and Savin Rock, and ! few in New Haven. Young trees es- oecially suffered by the heavy blow and damage was left in the winds wake. One of the trees blown town stood near the fountain in the grove at Savin Rock, between the foun- ain and -he band stand. While the concert was being given many people | were promenading about the grove and | IS the tree, a young maple, bent and 1 ,roke, it came so suddenly that many | If the pedestrians were caught under it, | )ut not one was hurt although several | f the women near by were considerably | frightened. Within five minutes of the | ime the tree fell attendants at the | rove were on the spot and removed | he fallen tree, and the excitement soon ubsided.