New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-08-08
WATERS END FOUR LIVES
Bodies of Lake HopatCong VIC
tins Recovered and Identified.
MANY ESCUES EFFECTED
Attempt to Win Bet Nearly
Costs Life Of Experienced
Swimmer.

F,our nersons were drowned in New York
waters Yesterday, two while in bathing and
two when boats in which they were pasSeh-
gers overturned The bodies of two OF the
victims have not yet been recovered. other
persons during the day had marrow escapes
from drowning.
William A Krebs, forty-three Years. old,
OF No $50 Elton avenue, The Bronx. went
for a swim in the Hudson from his launch,
which he had tied up TO the Spuyttn DuyV1i
bridge, yesterday afternoon He had gone
about fifty feet from the craft when friends
whom he had taken for a sail saw MIN
throw up his hands and sink. George King,
one Of the party. went into the water after
krebs, but before he reached him he was
drowned. The body was recovered two
hours later. The dead mans wife and chill
dren were on shore waiting for him when
news reached them that he had drowned.
Abraham Baruel, sixteen years DID, OF
No. 543 East 18th street. was bathing IN
Silver Lap Lake, near st. George, staten
Island, with two companions yesterday al
ternoon, when he was taken with cramps
Before help could reach him he drowned
His body was not found.
While playing with a brother In a row.
boat in Alley Creek, Bayside, Long lsiahd'
yesterday afternoon, Charles Wanser' ten
years old, OF Baysde lost his balance and
fell into the water. He was drowned be-
fore his brother could get assistance.
Lost Life Saving Woman.
Charles T. Schanz torty-one years Old
of Poughkeepse n. Y, was assisting two
women friends into a dingy which mao
pulled alongside a launch in which they
had sailed from Hoboken, in the HUDSON
off Yonkers yesterday.
He got the first woman in all rlsht' pu'
as he was helping the second one In the
added weight caused the little boat 10 SHIN
The three we're thrown into the water
William Hit, of Hoboken, the huspaho u
one Of the women, and John Borath' also
of Hoboken, jumped into the water aiio
manae aged to save them, Another member
of the party who remained in the iauiich'
threw a lifebelt to Schanz, but he was lot
exhausted to reach 1t and he went ufloei
His body was not recovered
A number of friends bet Charles Ro-
martuk. twenty-six years old, shlrt"als'
maker of No. 800 East 101st street. recehIs
that he could not swim from the dock al
esth street across He'll Gate to Mill KOCH
and back again. Romartuk took the pct
and his friends made pool OF go. lie SCI
out on his swim yesterday afternoon He
got to Mill Rock, which is about opposite
9sth street, and started back again SUD
denly his friends and a throng of people
watching him from Riverside Park, at 9-c
street. noticed that he was in trouble
David Durr. a member Of the United
States Volunteer Lifesaving Corps, set out
in A rowboat and after hard pull reached
Rorartuk. who was ready to give up
Durr was himself exhausted, and he hac
to wait until another oarsman reached hin
before he and the swimmer could be takeI
back to the Manhattan shore.
Two Bodies Recovered.
The bodies of two persons who were
drowned during the carnival on Lake Ho'
patcong, New Jersey, Saturday night, which
were recovered early yesterday morning
have been IDENTIFIED as those OF Miss
Nina Muhe, of New York City, and A M
Comegys, of Wilmington, Del Botn nae
been guests Al the Mountain View House
They were thrown into the water when one
OF the hotel launches was struck Dy lne
gasolene ferry launch luck, coT1I na lts
by Captain George w HuimeS. four oth-
ers in the boat were rescued
One of thu attendants going the rounds
of the bathing houses connected Win Col,
ley's pavilion in Rockaway Park, near
Rockaway Beach, last night discovered a
Young woman, clad in her bathing SUIT
Unconscious in one OF the houses lit
pital, and the surgeon took the woman to
that institution, still insensible. 1t Is be,
lieved that she was taken with ehll
after leaving the ocean; ana su 1nst oS s.
seriousness. In a handbag found IN the
bathing house was a letter addressed 70
Mrs, Hannah n: Kane No; Jag West {r; sur
living AT Nd 1T West 111th street.