The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-17
I1vE DROWNED IN THE HUDSON
,,> DRAGS DOWN LIFESA|ER
uHO SUAM TO HIS AID.
maths hue to the Folly Of Those
vho Conltlnt switn-Bo, Falls Het"een
uargcs Man Jumps From bridge ana
urc,ks HIS Neck Fatal Case or Cranip'

Uargrs-NGn Jumps FROM bT"S' MI"
urraks HIS Neck-Fatai case OF tramp
,u,,hor of persons lost their lives
no eaters adjacent to this city yesterday
bs Iife.avers say that in all their cS-
H' ,noe they never saw so many people
p,,,;,, into deep water who were Nm
.'1 -, care for themselves Among those
,od yeas A lfesaver who was trying TO
u'o ,,,o a rash lad Five persons lost their
,,.es in the Hudson River.
NJ w. AIRS, 70 tr, drowned there was James
,,'s.rorth 10 years old. Of $40 West l2ath
YIN" uo went in bathing of West 124th
..oot with Timothy Boylan Of 1886 Fast
,,rh street and Charles simmons Oh 600
Th;rd avenue, two of his chums. Chids-
uorth could not swim ana MS companions
,o,unteered to teach him,
They showed him various strokes ana
exclaimed to him how to keep MS legs anu
arms in motion. Chdsworth finally s'rucA
~, for himself. The moment he got beyond
NJ. denth he was in trouble he crleo ouI
~ his COMPANIONS, and they fastened to MS
sd Before they got within twenty feet
n him. Chcs worth disappeared.
B,ylan and Simmons waited a few SECONDS
II, Cbldsworth to bob up to the surface
and when he didn't they dived for MIN.
They could not find him, and after waiting
around in the water for awhile they con
ordod he was drowned. They informed
polceman Shane and hurried to their
obur's home to break the news to his
Parents. The body was not recovered.
Ahort the time Childsworth lost his life,
Norman Hammer. 10 years old, OF liz East
r,,h street. was having death struggle
with Life Saver John Smith who va en-
rloved by the Washington Heights Baths
a, the foot of West l55th street.
Hammer went In swimming at the Au-
dbon Reach baths at the foot OF West
l5od street He wasn't very good SWIM
nsr and after being in the water for tine
he concluded he would call on friend ne
knew at the Washington Heights Baths
In his bathing suit he walked along the
,ailroad tracks to the Washington Heights
baths He did not see the friend he eS-
reced to meet but he swan out to float
He remained on the float for short time
Watching the other bathers when he de-
cded he would take another dip The
float was the farthest out in the river ana
not very far from the channel, which Is be-
tween twenty-five and thirty feet deep
When Hammer dropped from the float he
made for the channel.
Life Saver Smith yelled to him to get into
shallower water. seeing with his expert
enced eyes that Flammer was not an eS-
r.rt swimmer. If Flammer had any inten-
linn If chewing he was in trouble before
he could do s.. Spectators think he was
saized with a cramp. he went down and
Smith swan to his aid.
The life saver brought Hammer to the
surface with a grip on his hair. Flammer
was 50 scared that he grasped Smith by
the throat with both hands. Smith tried
TO shake the young man of, but he could
NOT even cry out for help he was held 80
light. In struggling to free himself Smith
was dragged under water. An,
holdin, on to Smiths throat like grim
death Flammer was unconscious then, or
nearly so, and Smith exhausted. Smith
made one more futile attempt to shake on
his burden and then both went to the
bottom.
As raridly as possible to them when they
dropred out Of sight. The nearest life
saver was only twenty feet away, Efforts
were made 10 recover the bodies but they
were not found. 't
An hour and a half later another man
los, his life within dozen yards OF where
Flammer and Smith were drowned. He
was Oscar Carlson, % years old, glass
cutter living at 6l2 Lexington avenue:
John Peterson lives in the same house ana
Yesterday he took Carlson cut to teach him
TO swim. Peterson used to be sailor and
sa good swimmer.
He showed Carlson the rudiments of the
art and kept swimming alongside of him
for little while. Then Carlson expressed
the desire to be allowed to swim a. lone.
He was an apt pupil and he started out
boldly.
Keep in the shallow water and you'll
be all right. Peterson yelled as Carlson
started of on his own hook.
Carlson did not follow Instructions. He
was soon in deep water Before Peterson
could get to him he was drowned.
Nine-year-old Bernard Goldstein OF 1921
IVES. Twenty-ffth street was playing tag
in the evenin al the foot OF West Nineteenth
street where number Of mud scows are
moored. The boys were jumping from one
to another, In making a jump Bernard
fell between two OF the scows and disap-
peared in the water. His body was found
some time later by Timothy d. Sullivan OF
t2s West Nineteenth street. 1t was re-
moved to the West Twentieth street police
station and later claimed by his parents.
Michael Dolan of West Fifty third street
Manhattan, the house number not being
known, was drowned at New Dorp Beach
Richmond, Yesterday afternoon. His body
was recovered at low water last night
He was at New Dorp on an outing with the
New York Steam Heaters Association
After dinner he went in bathing and was
eeized with cramp.
Albert Pugh. AZ wears old, of ia -Four
tenth street, Brooklyn, dived off u small
boat under the Harway avenue draw
bridge at Coney Island Creek yesterday
afternoon striking his head on the bottom
OF the creek and breaking his neck. He
was dead when he came to the surface.
Pugh was plu mber and had determined
to spend the day fishing and bathing in thu
creek, The water at the place where ht
Owed is ONLY about four feet deep at low
tide and the bolt ON Is hard sand.