The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-17
YACHT VICTIMS, not FOUND,
BELIEVED THAT TEE THREE
BODIES WE'RE CARRIED TO SEA.

the Dead Man IL Russell BeeIcr and the
Won en- Arc Probably Two Dressmakers
From BSs,Sn Mabel Ceeke About ne
covered -KIees's Tn riding Experience.
The surviving members Of the party on
the small boat Sausage, which was over
turned in the lower bay on Saturday morn
ing, nave given up hope that the bodies OF
the two women and h man who were
drowned will be recovered. The tides set
out so strongly there that persons familiar
with the bay believe the bodies were car
RED out to sea. The chances OF their COM
inxa ashore at any point along the coast are
ANAL.
The man drowned, as THE Sun said yes
terday, is Russell Beeler, who has a brother
named Samuel in W~synesboro, Pa. SAM
uel Beeler wired to I. j. Vandenheuvel OF
! Ao2 Third street, Brooklyn, yesterday after
hearing OF the accident. Through Vanden-
heuyel il was learned that the man whose
name has been given as Klees, one Of the
saved, is Peter Klees of either New Haven
or Hartford. .
Mr.. Vandenheuvel says that he worked
| with Beeler in the otioe of the United States
Steel Company at II Broadway. Vsnden-
heuVel said that Klees sent an invitation to
Beeler to come down to Jamaica Bay TO
Join a houseboat party on Friday night.
1t is believed that this was the houseboat
on which Walter w. Dodd lives. Klees
and Beeler went down there and met the
two Dodds. The two girls, Fannie Day
and Mabel Cooke, were with the Dodds.
The two other women, who are reported to
be Gertrude Saunders OF New Pennington,
Me-. ano Minnie Fitzpatrick OF Charlestown
-saGn1 ~uskh Mia GQrlndAHn
in a dreesmakinR establishment in Boston.
The meeting between the six others and
the two New England women was informal
They all took dinner together. Vanden-
heuvel a he learned from hlees Alter,
ward that they set out from Sheepshead
Bay to 70 to Rockaway Beach. not very
far away, but that as something vent WronG
with the engine they anchored. Inc ancnor
line parted and the boat started TO drnt
Klees said that they drifted around until
morning and Their hailed a tug pulling
some mudscows, one OF which bumped the
Saueage. He rays he dived and when ne
came up struck several times against the
bottom Of the scow; he came up N C SteSa
which was floating and hung onto It unit
the steamship Fl Paso came along ano
pulled the four survivors out:
Kleea afterward learned from Waltel
Dodd that the last Dodd saw OF Beeler ne
was irving 10 help one Of the women IN the
water but that she grabbed him arounc
the mack and the two sank together.
~Vandenheuvel said he thought there
must nave been some mistake about any
drinking going on as far as Beeler was
concerned. because he had known beelel
for two wears and Beeler did not drink
Beeler lived in New York at III est 1873
street. This address il not Tar from tina
of Miss Day and Miss Cooke, who live a
342 st. Nicholas avenue.
Gertrude Saunders and Minnie F1tz
patrick, whom Miss Day on Saturday sal'
she thought were married women, hav'
been in New York for about four day
| buvinR goods. They have been staying q
the Grand Hotel. The clerk there said tina
thew had not been in their rooms sino
Friday night and be believed that the
Tri0ht he the two women lost, althoug
, he could not describe them. No inquire
| or dispatches came to the hotel Tor TN
women Yesterday. Mrs. Saunders ~ unoeH
! stood TO be a daughter OF a politician n
New FarminRton, Me.
l IL ia. expected hat Miss Cooke Will Ieav
the &. r. Smith Inflrmary at Port Hlcn
! mond his morning and will return q
work, She has almost entirely reooVere'
/ from the effects OF her adventure:
} Can't. Harkins at the Coney Island poIc
station last night received a teiegrar
I regarding one Of the women drowned froI
! the Sausage, which read:
Can you give me any =.
Rarding Mrs. r. @. OF bostol
who has been drowned in lower Day
Notify W. Bailey, Houlton' Me"