The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-06-22

. In a few minutes the hundreds of
persons on the shore became thou
sands, and a score of boats filled with
men were in the, water searching for
the lost youth. 1t was not until sew
eral hours later that divers found the
body in the mudhole.
At Trenton, John Gengal, Of Roeb-
ling, married less than month. was
seized with cramps while bathing in
the Delaware River with a number of
companions, and drowned before as
sistance could reach him. He had been
warned by his wife on leaving home.
A shor, distance from the spot where
Gengal went down, Chester Hart. 20.
of Trenton. prominent in National
Guard circles. plunged into the river
after a hard days work. He did not
rise. and his companion in the row.
boat, from which he dived, became
alarmed and rowed away to summon
aid. Harts body was later recovered.
| Gengars wife and Harts fiancee are
both prostrated.
Dynamite for Boys Body.
Dynamite was used in Lake Hopat-
cong to bring to the surface the body
of an unidentified boy whose manner
of death was told by a heap of clothes
on the bank. Fishermen came upon
the clothing early in the day and
surmised that the owner had been
drowned. After two. sticks of dyna-
mite had been exploded under the
water the body rose to the surface.
Sussex County boy. BARLEY Reab-
lie, 10. of Newton. attempted to swim
across Netcong pond yesterday. When
halfway across he was seized with
cramps and sank. The body was still
at the bottom when search was re-
sumed today.
The body of Henry Ruddenigan, a
watchman, of Jersey City, who disap-
peared recently, was found floating in
the North River almost in the path Of
the ferryboats which ply between Jer-
sey City and New York.
George Wolf, a wealthy Philadelphian,
is missing from his hotel at Atlantic
City, and is believed 10 have been
drowned. He hired a yawl to go crab
bing and failed to return. His hat and
coat were found in the boat by a
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that he landed on a small island and
that the boat drifted away, leaving him
marooned.
Floating in the Delaware, off the head
of Fifth street. Camden. the body of
John A. Longwell. of S27 Beeohwood
street, Philadelphia. was found yester-
day afternoon. The authorities believe
that he fell off boat The body had
,,ot haap In, tba rix1ar lopU
Thrilling Double Rescue.
A thrilling rescue was made at Gran
berry Lake in the presence 1900 spec
tators when Jack Posner of 15a East
Seventy ninth street, New York, saved
two New York bathers from drowning.
Louis Opplebaum, of 29 East Broadway,
raised up his hands and went down
forty feet from the shore without cry.
Abraham Polescheck, of II Allen street,
saw Opplebaum go down and shouted
for help, Posner jumped in, rescued
Opplebaum, after a desperate encoun-
ter with the drowning man. and then
swan back for Polescheck, who was
well-nigh exhausted. He brought the
latter to the shore amid the cheers of
the crowd which lined the bank of the
lake. An attempt will be made to pro-
cure a Carnegie medal for Posner
John Opp, of Philadelphia, became
exhausted while bathing beyond the
breaker line at Atlantic City. N. r.
Jeffried, jr, 1S years old, who was in a
canoe, went to his rescue and held the
drowning man above the water until
life guards arrived.
Harry Law son of a farmer living in
Richfield, N. j., had a narrow escape
| axrif M
Morris Canal, not far from his home.
| He was seized with cramps and was
sinking for the third time when Louis
Mitchell. caddie ran to his help with
a golf stick Wading as far into the
canal as he dared. Mitchell let Law
grab the club and then pulled him
lashore.