New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-07-11
THREE DROWNED NEAR By
MANY Casualties Result from At
tempt to Escape Heat.
ONE DIVERS NECK BROKEN
Police and Others Save SeVeral
Persons in and Near City
from Death.

Three persons were drowned yester-
day, and one man is in the washington
Heights HospitaI with a broken neck,
which he suffered when he dove from
raft into two feet Of water at 149th street
and the North River. Five more men nar-
rowly missed being added TO the fatality
list. but through the heroism of others
were got out of danger.
Richard Unger Of Jersey City, was
drowned in Newark Bay off 10Th street,
gayonne, yesterday IN plain view OF hun
dreds, who were unable to help him. Unger
could not swim. but dove of q spring board
into the water thinking that friends would
look after him. When he came TO the sur
face the tide carried him away from shore,
and before help could reach him he
drowned The body was not recovered
Newark Bay claimed another bather
shortly after Unger lost his life The sec
ond nland to drown was Joseph Der,arts,
seventeen years old, of New York City
The boy, with two others, set out in row.
boat, ard when about three hundred feet
from the Bayonne shore they disrobed for
q swim Denlaris was seized with cramp
and drowned The body was not recovered.
Isidor Krause. twenty, a laborer, dove
from raft at 14ath street and the Hudson
River into what he thought was deep wa
ter. Instead. IT was shallow, and his head
struck the river bottom He was lifted to
the raft by friends and DR.. Sn,ernof, of
the WASHINGTON Heights Hospital, took him
there. He is not expected TO live
Cheered on by several hundred passen~
gers aboard the steamer AcconacE, Of the
Glen Island Line, the mate and deckhand
of the steamer rescued two men from
drowning in Hell Gate, on the west side
Of Wards Island Both men were put
aboard the ferryboat Hackensack ard
landed at s9th street and East River. Cap
tain Harry Mckenzie, who was IN COM
rnand Of the Accouack, did not learn their
names,
The Accomack while bound for Glen
Island was attracted by an alarm, whistle
given by the ferryboat Hackensack- Real
izing that something had gone anaiss the
plain gave a jingle bell for full speed
ahead, and then ordered his crew to launch
a boat. Before the Hackensaok could re-
verse its engine It ran down a naphtha
launch, about thirty feet long, in which
were two men They had been in the water
about five minutes when they were rescued
There was a strong tide running in Hell
Gate at the time, and Captain Mckenzie ex-
perienced much difficulty in keeping his
vessel from going aground. It seems that
in doing this the circulating pump partly
gave way. On her way from Glen Island
to the Battery Captain Mckenzie found
that the pump had sprung a leak and put
in at 1929 street. The passengers all left
the boat quietly
James R Skinner. jr-, nineteen years old,
son Of an insurance man at No. 50 Pine
street, Manhattan. was drowned in Great
South Bay, off Patchogue, Long Island He
was in a yacht with some friends and was
hit and knocked overheard by the boom
His body was not recovered.
George Bauschinen. member Of the
United States Volunteer Life Saving Corps.
went to the assistance of James Reilly last
evening. when he saw him struggling in the
East River ct the end of 24th street He
swan TO a dock with Reilly, and both were
taken ashore by means of a rope. No doc
tor was called for the rescued man
Jacob Rosenblatt, eighteen. went in for
a swim from the dock at 10th street and
the East River yesterday morning. When
about fifty feet out he was taken with
cramps and yelled for help. Patrolman
Haggerty. of the Union Market station,
heard the yelling, and running to the end
of the dock, removed his hat and coat and
Jumped in after Rosenblatt Both men
we're taken aboard the ferryboat Kentucky
George Winters was out rowing in New
York Bay off Bayonne yesterday afternoon
when the boat capsized. 4 friend, Joseph
Minot, who was with him, started to swim
for himself when they landed in the water,
thinking that Winters could swim. He
turned about, however, when he discovered
that he could not. and after a struggle
managed to get him into the boat and back
to shore