The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-16

was carried to the l2sth street pier and there
Lyle gave her his coa and a quarter for
carfare and h was able to get to her home
on st. Nicholas avenue, near lSOth street.
II was explained that the reason that the
soow Olympia was swinging 20 wide was
that the left hAwser had parted odt in the
ocean and the sooN vas being pulled along
by one line only. There was no one at
work on the Olympia, and for that reason
the crash between the two boats passed
unnotioed. The towboat People were hav-
ing their own troubles navigating the
cranky feet in the rough weather anyhow.
When the Sausage was overturned by the
Olympia Mrs. Saunders, her married friend
and the unidentified man fell at once into
the water and never appeared again. They
could not swim, and il is supposed that they
hardly knew what was happening, any
how. Walter Dodd grabbed Miss Cooke
as the bump came and they were thrown
into the wafer together. His brother was
right. with them, me Klees, who had Owed,
came up alonRside the overturned boat,
The three men all supported Mise Cooke
and with frikhtful effort they managed to
set over, 70 the little craft and grab hold.
They hung on, tight and they we're very
lucky. : N was only fifteen minutes after
ward that ,thegEl Paso came along and at
bali pAAt'5 O'Clock all four were on board,
Klses had yielded place on the hull to the
WOMEN. and the. two men, padding along
behind it and just managing 10 keep ahoat.
They we're exhausted when they were
dragged on board a small. boat from the
FL Paso.
All the members Of the party refused to
al AL-g 49, III NJ. III
were transferred at Quarantine to the tug
McCaldin Brothers, which carried them
over to. the Marine Hospital at Stapleton
At 10 A. NJ. the three men left, while Miss
Cooks was taken to the .infirmaTy at Port
Richpqnd. The Quarantine 10 Charles
F. Allen went down the harbor, picked up
the. Sausage. INT took it to the Quarantine
station at Tompkinsville..
When Walter Dodd arrived at the hospital
in; Stapleton he gave his name as W. W.
David OF Jamaica. .
There vas nosttempt made to detain the
Dodds. or Efees. at the Marine Hospital
until it could be found out just what was
the makeup, Of, the boating party. They
left the hospital without the police. beinR
informed. Tire Coroner Of Richmond has
not been notified. The police have APP
parently lost all trace Of the three In6n. -
At the s! r. Smith Infrmary last night
it was said that Miss Cooke was doing
nicely and that she would probably be able
to be out in a short while. In the mean
time she Ii being kept very quiet
The Sheepshead Bay Hotel, which was
the scene OF the gay dinner before the
sail, is down cloee to the tracks Of the trolley
and elevated railroads. No one there last
night had any distinct remembrance Of
the members Of the party, all save the
Dodds and Mise Day and Miss Cooke being
strangers to those who hang aroundf here.
J.. j. Cronin, an undertaken in business
at 1903 Atlantic avenue, Brooklyn, called
up Police Headquarters in Manhattan last
night to say that Russell Beeler had been
drowned, in the Sausage catastrophe. The
undertaken asked that the police notify
him il the body should be recovered
Cronin told a Sun reporter that J. G.. Cronin,
whom he does not knOw intimately, called
at the undertaking shop last night and told
him that Beeler, with whom J. q. Cronin
works for the American Sheet Tin Company
Of New York, was known to have been
on the boat. J. g. Cronin asked the under
taker to look out for the body.