New-York tribune., 1909-09-06
LIVES SAVED In STORM
MANY GALLANT RESCUES
IN NEARBY WAT'ERS.
Some Fatalities Likely, as Small
Craft Werc Found Capsi@cd
and Deserted.

! Fishing and pleasure craft were swamped and
| overturned and lives were probably lost, it was
| thought last night at Canarsie. on Jamaica Bay.
the result of yesterdays gales on the ocean.
! Fear was expressed for the safety OF the sloops
! Taurus and Madeline s.. which had left Canarsi >
/ yesterday morning with thirty and fifteen men
aboard, respectively, for the fishing grounds
| The police boat of Harbor Squad c. went out in
the storm to look for them, and last night on Il
telephone message from Canarsie the police boat
Patrol, of Harbor Squad A., left the Battery for
Ambrose Channel, where the two SoopS were re
ported anchored off the light.
Word came from Canarsie later that the
Taurus had succeeded in returning there, but
with some difficulty, while the Madeline ;. was
still anchored near Ambrose Light her crew
having been taken off
The Madeline S, a large white sloop, disnast-
ed and partly submerged, went aground late, IN
the afternoon on shoal between RockawaN
Point and Ambrose Channel Fifteen men were
taken off the soop by another craft from ulmer
Park an auxiliary sloop just as the Banshee, OF
Canarsie, Captain Henry Meyer, was heading TO
the rescue.
Another craft. a 2S-foot CABIN launch painted
black and waterlogged, was sighted by Edward
Berglund, of the auxiliary schooner Crusoe,
Of Canarsie. on the edge of the ship channel.
The crew had evidently been taken off by some
other vessel The only living creature aboard
was forlorn looking long haired terrier, which,
managing to keep right side up in spite of the
smashing blows of big waves against the boat,
made his presence known by a succession of
howls
The Crusoe passed within dozen feet of the
launch, and Captain Bergund, reaching over the
side with large crab net, managed with skill
full sweep of it to grasp the terrier and bring
I, ,i,a, hoo
wagged his thanks with his tail stump. and
promptly adopted as the Crusoes watchdog
and mascot.
Nine men who started from Newark, \. J..
yesterday morning in the Edna c, a 25-fo
black painted launch. had narrow escape when.
with a badly twisted rudder and broken down
engine, the craft was placed at the mercy of the
waves mile off Sandy Hook Lightshp. Cap
tain Frank Stacy. Ralph Camparie. owner of
the boat, and Michael Mcmahon of No s5 Fred
erick street, Newark, and another man, whose
identity was not made known, adopted heroic
measures to save themselves and their com
panions.
After the heavily loaded boat failed to make
headway and sank lower and lower in the water
despite frantic bailins. the four men put them
selves over the sides and holding on to the gun
wales. permitted themselves to float in the uater,
thereby relieving the imperilIed craft of much
weight Meanwhile their companions aboard
continued to bail. For two hours the men bat
tied against the threatened doom,
Finally the osceola. a large cabin cruiser, of
Canarsie hove in sight. and. observing their dis
tress came up. Captain Theodore Feith ordered
two boats put out from her and all hands of the
Edna c. were rescued They had suffered much
from exposure. Henry Bragg. William Balzer
and Fred and Ralph Graft. all of Newark were
weak they could hardly stand
The Edna c. was taken in tow by the Osceola
and brought TO Canarsie Landing. The rescued
men reported having seen capszed and de-
serted sloop floating bottom upward, early in
the day. Several craft had their masts broken
off by the squalls and were stripped of canvas
The Rose r.. Captain Gus Rau, towed a dis
abIed fishing sloop into the bay late last night
having sighted the craft in helpless condition
off Perth Amboy. There were twenty men