New-York tribune., 1908-04-12
SIX KILLED IN GALE
FOUR BLOWN INTO W4TEP
Boat Copsiaes in Pelham Bay
; Dro7rn-Urcckage Hurts Manu-.

= high gale which swept over this city and the
surrounding country yesterday afternoon Three
~ these were drowned in Pelham Bay when
their rovhoat was capsized. one was blown from
: steamboat at PeekskiIl and drowned and the
othor two were killed by flying missiles
II x believed by the police that several other
rc-sons were drowned in Pelham Bay. as Eve
est-botton rowboats similar to the one which
Was overturned. were not heard from UP TO last
midnight and # is thought that the occupants
either lost their lives that the boats were
blown out into Long Island Sound or over to
Iong Island.
pstrolmen from the City Island station as
well as score OF volunteers. walked the shore
~ the bay all night in the hope OF getting some
,-sc. OF the missing men and the boats The
owners Of the boats were unable TO give the
names Of the persons who rented them.
The lighthouses were thronged with men IN
tending 10 90 out 70 fish for founders. At Gal
,sshers and Lohbauers's lighthouses which are
On the shore Of the bay, near Throg's Neck. more
4bsn forty boats were rented all Of which were
a. the bav AL were of the fat-bottom make,
ard in each boat there were three or more men.
~. ma forty Of these were towed in by naphtha
boats.
MEN SINK AFTER STRUGGLE.
Then the gale blew up all Of the fishermen
.-s--ed for the lighthouses. The men found that
- TOW against the wind vas almost impossible.
and on the shore launches were put in readiness
end Immediately sent out 10 rescue the fisher
-,.n As the launches started out three men
we're seen in boat about five hundred feet off
Locust Point which is z the southerly end of
the hay. southeast OF Stepping Stone Lighthouse.
The men were seen pulling away on the oars
when a fierce gale blew across the bay It
caught the small boat and in a second it turned
ne me- Err 1a5 oh for
utes in the water and then sank.
IN the mean time the launches were going
foour the bay picking UP the rowboats which
contained men almost unconscious from the
weather and from their experiences. The wind
vas blowing at q rate Of fifty miles an hour
About thirty boats were taken In tow bv the
launches, and the occupants were taken to the
lighthouses. When every one who could be seen
sooT the bay had been brought TO shore the
men IN the launches started out to look for the
bodies OF the three men, but could not find them
After giving up the search the employees of
Galagher's and Lohbauers' discovered that five
boats we're missing. -Four Of the boats which
left the Gallagher boathouse in the day
could not he accounted for. and one boat from
Lohbauers' was missing.
HOLMES PATROLMAN KILLED.
Thomas Talbot, sixty years old. a Holmes
pst~olman, living at No. 43 Duf1eld street,
Brooklyn was instantly killed last night while
81 front of No Beekraar street when avn
ing. blown from its place, struck him. It
knocked him over the guard rail of a sidewalk
elevator opening, and he fell two stories into
the sub basement
John O'Bren. an expressman. OF No. 121 Van
UlnkIe avenue, Jersey City was struck by an
iron shutter blown from a building near No. "a
Eeede street and died from a broken neck and
q fractured skull in the HUDSON Street Hospital.
LOTUS Chase, a clerk on the Morton Line
steamer PeekskiIl. which runs between New
York and Peekskiu, was drowned at the latter
place The Peekskiu was being shifted from the
north 70 the south side OF the pier. Chase was
m the stringpiece, waiting TO throw line to the
boat, when he suddenly blown overheard.
The body vas recovered.
Louis Spector, four years old. was playing near
The edge Of the roof Of his five story home, No.
80 West 3Sth street, when he was blown off the
roof. He was picked up unconscious and sent TO
the Roosevelt Hospital suffering from fract-
Ured skull and Internal injuries
The military ferryboat General Hancock. which
runs 70 Governors Island from the Battery, and
S usually awash in ordinary weather, became a
seni-submarine yesterday. An unused landing
bridge or Ellis Island was torn from its fasten-
tngs st the height Of the gale and blown across
70 Governors Island, where It pounded against
TIE bulkheads near Castle William.
George Allen. z painter. OF No. 1O9 West 62d
street lost his balance and was blown from the
roof of three story building at Lenox avenue
srd I25th street. He was taken TO the Harlem
Hospital IN passing automobile, where 1t was
said that several bones were broken and he was
Internally injured. His recovery is doubtful.
While IN front of No. 21 Warren street, George
T. Sheppard, Of No. Co4 President street. Brook
from neighboring building. He was attended
h~ s0 ambulance surgeon for : severe scalp
wound and taken 70 his home
Frank II ReverS of 30. Moore street vas
,'i-asd ~ The dust and carried from the side
- < - Front and Whitehall streets, and was
rr- doun tv = truck A. the Hudson Street
Hospital IL vas found that he had fractured
ankle and lscerstions of the fare.
CRUSHED BENEATH FENCE.
E--edi-t silveruan. # No ~ West asth
s'rse,. -as crushed beneath 2 fence ~ no 207
Vssr 9srh street, which was blown down as he
Is passing. He vas badly bruised.
John Pouch. of No 314 East 14th street, was
struck on the head by board blown from a
sosHold on q nearby building He was taken TO
Bellevue Hospital suffering from scalp wounds.
Louis Kaefter, Of No. 341 East 1880 street.
had his right leg broken by being thrown from
Z wagon in Washington avenue and 18th street,
which was overturned by the wind The wagon
vas covered and the gale lifted it up into the
ar several feet and then overturned it.
Sydney Beiendi, eleven years old, Of No. $40
East Jgth street. was pinned beneath a fence at
Fourth avenue and JOth street which was blown
over while he was passing, and was internally
injured. He was removed 10 the Norwegian
Hospital
While Mrs Joseph Romeo was dressing her
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