New-York tribune., 1910-07-21
SAVES CHILD AS OWN
DAUGHTER BROWNS
Six Victims of the Waters at
Summer Resorts and Beaches
Near the City.
HUMAN CHAIN WAS USELESS
Nurses Formed It at Atlantic
City in Vain Effort to Rescue
Bather Caught in Fatal
UndertoW.

The lure Of the waters about the city
claimed six lives in the last forty-eight
hours. In the Delaware River near Mil
ford, Penn, on Tuesday a woman saved
a child after a boating accident. though
helpless to prevent the drowning. with
an older girl, of her own little daugh-
ter. Two were drowned yesterday at
Atlantic City. and at beaches at Rocka-
way and Staten Island a man and a boy
were drowned.
Miss Lillian Jackson, the twenty-one-
year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
George Jackson, of No. 225 West 18th
street, and IdeIle Fellows, the four-year-
old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George
Fellows, of No. 19 Grove street. were
drowned in the Delaware River near
Milford. Penn, on Tuesday afternoon.
Mrs. Fellows, mother of Idelle Fellows,
and Ruth kurtz, the seven-year-ol
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs Christian
hurtz, who live a mile and a half below
Milford, had q narrow escape.
The New Yorkers were boarding at the
Kurtz farm for the summer and started
Brick House Eddy. They were unaware
that they were approaching the danger
Gus Warmers Rift until too late to row
back up the stream, but assuring her
companions that she could manage the
craft Miss Jackson attempted to guide II
through the riffs
The young woman succeeded very we'll
until the foot of the rift was reached,
and then the boat turned sidewise. Miss
Jackson stood up. and 2 moment later
all four were in the water. Some men
gathering hay on the farm of Samuel
De Trick heard a woman screaming for
help and going to the river found Mrs.
Fellows standing waist deep in water SO
swift that no river man had ever dared
TO wade there She was holding the up
turned boat, on which she had placed
Ruth Kurtz. At the same time her
own daughter and Miss Jackson were
drowned
The men brought Mrs. Fellows and
Ruth Kurtz ashore, and the body of Miss
Jackson was recovered on an eel weir
soon afterward, but searching parties
working with nets and hooks all night
and all day to-day have failed to find
the body of IdelIe Fellows. The boat
was found lodged in q tree, and camera
which the party took with it foated
near by.
Mrs Fellows, suffering from the shock
Of her experience and from her grief, is
prostrated-
Daniel Gallagher, a janitor at the Fos-
ter Home for Children, AT Longport, was
drowned yesterday while bathing in the
surf near the home. despite the efforts
of a number Of young women nurses
from the institution who formed a hu-
man chain and tried to effect his rescue.
The nurses were on the beach with
their charges when Gala gher, who was
some distance out in the water, cried
for help No men were near, and, grasp
ing each others hands, several Of the
Young women rushed through the surf
toward the struggling bather. A strong
undertow, however, quickly carried the
drowning M out TO sea
One of the young women was swept
off her feet, but was rescued by her
companions Members of the govern
ment lifesaving crew at Longport, who
were summoned by the children, put out
boat, but were too late to reach the
man.
While the beach was jammed with
summer visitors yesterday afternoon the
crowds at Atlantic City were thrown
into a panic by the appearance in the
surf of the body of drowned man. The
bodv was dragged ashore, and was later
identified as that of H. z. Barlow, a
Philadelphia visitor. by papers in the
rockets of his clothes. which had been
left in a bathhouse. His relatives were
told of the drowning. It is supposed
that Mr.. Barlow was attacked by heart
disease while in the water and was un-
able to cry for help
Max Goldenberg, a clerk, Of No. II
Patchen avenue, Brooklyn, was drowned
off the foot of Kelly avenue, Rockaway
Beach. yesterday afternoon. Golden
berg had swum out far beyond the life
lines and had become exhausted He
cried for help, but before aid could
reach him he sank. It was only aft a
fo11r hour search that his body was re-
covered. The identification was made by
Miss Rose Young, OF Roc4away, his
cousin.
Eugene Cadix, a -year-old school
how of Mariners Harbor. Staten Island.
was drowned yesterday when he fell
into the Sound as he was running along
the stringpiece of the city pier at Har-
hor street. The boy was unable to
svjnn and he went down before anybody
could reach him. His body was re-
covered