The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-03
FOUR PERISH IN THE SOUND Sole Survivor of Yachting Party of Five in New
 Haven Hospital. PICKED UP OFF NORWALK Edward Auth Who Saw Companions Go to Death Brought Here by Tug
 Wyoming.
DASHED BY SEA SIX HOURS
Anguish of Disaster Sends Him Into Pitiful
 Ravings.

Attempting to run from Bridgeport to New York through the stormy sound yesterday in the 2S foot auxiliary sloop, ''The Belle," four men were drowned out of five in the boat by the capsizing of the sloop when nearly off Norwalk.
 LOST.
 Jacob Auth of 132 Saratoga avenue, Brooklyn, one of the owners of the sloop.
 August Jaeger, s26 Saratoga avenue, his brOther-in-law.
 Otto FIeger, 154 Worst street. Brook Iyn.
 George Glazer, Manhattan borough, New York.
 Edward Auth, 132 Saratoga avenue, Brooklyn, brother of Jacob Auth, and brother-in-law of August Jaeger.
 Edward Auth the only survivor of the terrible disaster was brought to thls city last evening by the tug Wyoming which picked him up in the Sound after he had been afioat for six hours. He is now at the New Haven hospital in a serious condition.
 The five young men were close friends and associates as members of the Williamsburgh Yacht club and they had been planning for some time to spend their vacation in a Sound trip in the "Belle" which belonged to the Auth brothers. They had four days for their trip and were to be in Brook lyn in time to go to work this morn- ing. They came up to this city and left here Saturday afternoon for Bridgeport. There they spent the night.
 Edward Auth, the only survivor of the disaster, was seen by a Journal and Courier reporter at the hospital last evening. He was in very seri- ous condition as the result of the shock of the loss of his relatives and friends and his mental condition was so serious that the doctors were loath to allow anyone to see him. The wreck had so unsettled his mind that any recollection of it set him to raving over the loss so that he could be seen for but few moments.
 After giving the names and addresses of his companions who were drowned he took up the story of the incidents which followed leaving New Haven. He stated that they had gone to Bridgeport and spent the night there. About o'clock in the morning they left Bridgeport. Asked about the weather conditions at that time Auth said that while 1t was cloudy 1t was not storming hard and they believed they could reach New York safely. Af- ter they had been out about an hour, the gasoline engine in the sloop, which was an auxiliary, broke down and they started to fix it. Auth said that the engine had been nearly repaired when a mountain-like wave came down broadside on to the sloop catching 1t like feather and capsizing it. And then 1t was all over," said he with a groan. we all clung to the capsized boat and I did all 1 could to tie my companions fast to the sloop but was unable to do so. And then, my God, they became benumbed and one by one dropped off before my eyes. It was terrible"
 Here Auth was so ONeICOul0 Dy HIS emotions that he started into another period of raving crying out: 70, shall never see them again, my God, my God" He began to throw himself violently about the bed and the reporter was forced to take hurried departure. "Oh, I shall never sleep again" said Auth, as he tossed restlessly under the attempted soothing of the doctor.
 Auth was rescued by the crew of the big tug Wyoming of the Lehigh Valley railroad line. The tug under command of Captain Michael McGold- rick of Perth Amboy and with John E. Kennedy of 1S6 Fairmont avenue, this city, as pilot, was battling its way up the Sound from New York to this city. Pilot Kennedy tells this story of tho rescue:
 "We were off the Norwalks and standing about three miles out from shore. There was a very heavy sea running and a northeast wind blowing, I should thing, about 40 miles an hour. In the distance I noticed something drifting that looked like floating spar from some wrecked ship At first we gave no especial heed to this not seeing anyone on the wreckage, but af- ter passing it by we turned the glass on the floating body. Still nothing could be seen but some instinct impell-