Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-07-19
DEATH FOLLONs|N
PLEASURE 6 WAKE
In New York Twenty Persons
Were Drowned and Thirty
Came Near Drowning.
TWO KILLED BY AUTOMOBILES
Boy Dragged to Death by Horse
Boy Kills Child in Imitation Of
Moving Picture Show.

New York, July ia review of the
4 casualties Of yesterday. including
drawings, automobile accidents, other
mishaps and crimes or violence, makes
Sit was one of the most unusual Sun
days ever experienced In this section
OF the country.
at least 10, and perhaps II, of one
sailing party were drowned in a squalIs
off Gravesend. There We're at least 10 n
other dfownings among the holiday
makers in the Immediate vicinity OF
New York City. Not less than 80 per-
sons came near drowning but were
rescued, some or them through the
heroic efforts OF life savers.
q w. Chappell, head Of the National
Casket company, was killed in5a an auto
mobile accident at Ganastota, N. Y. II
Mrs Wing, wife of IL neutrality-suspicious.
manufactures, was killed in a similar
accident near Peterson, N. j., and five if
members of her family were injured.
Mrs Richard Benson, wife of a lumber
dealer, was killed by an automobile VI
at Spring Valley, ~. y. Is #
Michael Kelly. II, years old, was drag
ged TO death by a runaway horse in
the Bronx Thirty-eight persons were
injured, two probably fatally, and five
seriously, when the porch on a house
IN Clarmont park, in the Bronx, coll
lapsed. s4i BIZ
10-year-old6 boy shot ana killed
a 4,year-old girl at West Burlington,
MI, in imitation of a moving picture
show he had witnessed. i8 pitt
Louis Plug, a scan1per at Rockaway5
Beach, died from poisoning, and his 4
relatives suspect foul play. The body!
of 4 man. who had been stabbed twice
n nf,tr frrt Fr,,v
caste Of Brooklyn n. isss n
DETAILS OF DROWNING.
Sixteen persons, five OF them women.
were drowned yesterday in the waters
in the vicinity OF New York. Ten per- Il
ished after the 5capsizing of the excur-
sion sloop Roxana, carrying % 3passen- Il
gers in lower View York bay. SIX were
Victims, OF swimming accidents. The
victims or the boa accident fellow:
THE DEAD.
Selma Sameason, New York. #
| Ella Olsen, Flathush, H. T. 35i 81 RI
So Olga and Iilma ISniidson, ErookIyn.t
| sisters, Ia and III wears 81
John Christensen Brooklyn 55 s5ia
| a abraham Hunson, Brooklyn
Abraham Janiison, Brooklyn. VII
Alec Engleson, T. rooklyil rs s58
q Peter Spielrpn, Brooklyn.
John Thompson, Brooklyn.
Capt. Samuelson OF the Roxaila and
thes51e survivors We're picked up under
great q ifficulties in a rough and choppy
sen blythe tug Lamont. N, 5sss
The .Ftoxanas wa c tateredS at Jlmsr
Beach, Brooklyn. by a party of swedes
from Brooklyn for a sail across the bay
to Midland Beach, Staten Island, and
back. The trip over was made without
mishap and all hands went ashore Il,
make merry! Beer was served and some
survivors could give only q hazy lac-&
count Of the accident H 8
All afternoon there was stiff breeze
from the southwest, which left a heavy
cross-sea. Toward 4 o'clock the Rox-
ana slipped into a squalI and before the
CAPTAIN could slack away his sheet the
boat was bottom up and the water was
black with bobbing heads.
Soon the Roxana vanished and the
struggling passengers began to follow
her.
Fortunately. the tug Lamont was
Keeping sharp lookout Capt. Reyes
saw the sloop kee! over. Instantly he
headed for the spot. but before he
could reach the Royana. 10. Of the pas Il
sengers had gone down. Life lines and
buoys were thrown to those still aflcats
and after few minutes Of brisk AMI
anxious work all in sight were rescued.