The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-27
LITTLE MAKE
TRIES TO AID
HIS BROTHER
While Fishing on Bank Two Lit
tie Tots Fall Into Stream and
Are Swept Away by Powerful
Current at Foot Of Twelfth
Street-Father Jumps to Their
Aid, Though Unable to Swim.
Constant Diving Has Failed to
Bring Up the Bodies.

Orlng UP the oOdleS.
Helpless to snve them, Meyer Cohen,
nm agent of the Life Insurance CONF
pnny OF Virginia, living mt 22O South
Second Street, yesterday afternoon saw
two OF his sons, Make, aged ten, and
Sidney, aged eight, drown before his
eyes In the james River mt the foot OF
Twelfth Street, and was himself nearly
drowned when he 1enped into the swift
IL moving current In an effort to res
cue them. Unable to swim, the father,
ncy, flnxen-hnired youngster, divcd
in where he saw the boy go down, and
was swept down the river fifty yards =
or 30, where he caught upon fish trap.
His course down river from where
he was swept OF his feet was under
water, and he WINS unconscious when he
landed on the trnp. Earl Nicholas,
fifteen years old, saw the drowning
man from the top of n nftccn-foot
wall, and climbing down n slender
wire rope, diycd into the water and
swan to the rescue. Cohen wns lying
on the trap with his head barely out
of ,yntcr, In Imminent danger 0f helnE
swept away again. The ffteen-year-
old boy pulled him higher up, nnd then
with the aid of several other young
boys, good swimmers all, rolled hin,
over md over and worked his arms up
and dawn. finally resuscitatlng him so
that he could be moved.
Father Is Rescued,
l,.re n ff,o rtt-
the cry that two boys were drowning
floated up to Main Street, where Rob-
ert Hudgin3, a riverman. was walking.
He answered the appeal and ran with
all his speed to the river, taking his
course down Twelfth Street. He saw
the dangerous plight in which Mr..
Cohen was lying and ran for his boat
a short distance away.
Tho fish trap on which the uncon-
scious man was being held by. young
Nicholas and his companions lies
and Hudgins poled his way out to fish
trap about half way between. The
current was swift and dangerous. and
Hudgins. unacquainted with the eddies
and small whirlpools, exercised extra
precaution in approaching the second
trap. From his boats prov he threw
out wire loop. which the boys caught
and fastened on the end of the trap.
Then Hudgins pulled himself towards
them. With some little difficulty they
got the unconscious man into the boat
and then took him down river to the
foot of Seventeenth Street. where the
city ambulance. which had before been
called. was waiting. The work of re-
suscitation was begun over again. and
most of the water which had gotten
into Mr.. Cohen's lungs was forced out.
First Thought for His Boys.
Have You got the boys yet?" he
asked as soon he could speak. 1t was
not a tome to answer in words. and
they slowly nodded their heads in the
negative. My God!" he cried, MY
God!'
They carried him to the ambulance
placed him in, and he was taken
rapidly to his home. where three physi-
clans received him. Mrs. Margaret
Huff, of 220 South Third street; Miss
Florence Black. trained nurses. and
two trained nurses from the Instruc-
tive Visiting Nurses Association. vol
unteered their services. and helped the
physicians to put the half-fainting
man to bed and apply hot water bags
and other appliances.
1t was not until he arrived home
and confronted his wife with the sad
news that Mr.. Cohen fully realized
that he had lost two of his children.
FTe raved In an agony of grief. Mrs.
Cohen almost collapsed The younger
children, seeing their parents so deer
In sorrow, also broke into fits of
weeping. and it was house of tears
Dr. t. B. Leonard. the family physt-
clan, finally gave Mr. Cohen a hypo-
dermic injection, and he was soothed
by the drug into. something like calm.
ar FOR ~
his lungs, but this swas gradually
forced out. and few hours later he
was resting more quietly. He could
remember little of how the accident
happened, and they questioned him as
little as possible.
News Creates Alarm.
Many friends and nelghbors 1ocked
to the bereaved home and offered their
services. Several grown men broke
down and wept when they heard OF the
fatality. The news of the drowning
spread like wldfre. and several false
alarms We're sent out One man, who
was several miles out In the country
received information by telephone that
it was his brother who was drowned.
Ee caught a car on the Richmond and
Chesapeake Bay Line and at Shafer
and Broad streets he was met by an
AUTOMOBILES. He was rushed down to
the scene OF the Tragedy, iiia tliaTe
was much relieved TO learn that II
was all mistake.
Wcre Fishing From shore,
| The drowning happened at 1850
o'clock yesterday afternoon, just as Mr.,
Cohen was preparing to so home with
| his little boys, He had heen fishing
from the WALL near the power-ho OF
the Virginia Railway and Power Com
pany, at. the foot OF Twelfth Street. and
the two boys were padding IN the wa
ter near him with several other small
hoys Silas Brown, colored, who was
1 ashtn,. psar tha sama spot And wh0