The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-29
Both Brought toSurface
Soon After Electric
Storm.
FIRST TOWED IN
BY DREDGE,CREW
Father Identifies 1t as Littk
Sidney, Then Goes Home,
Hearing Later That Makes
Body Was Found by
Colored Men - Grief
Stricken by Sight.

Two days after they had beck
drowned the bodies OF Make and Sid
ney Cohen. ten and eight years old,
were discovered yesterday just beyond
the wharf of the Old Dominion Steam
ship Company The first was found at
4:45 o'clock by the crew of the city
drcdge, in charge of Captain Thomaa
Cunningham. 1t was the golden head
of Sidney, the younger OF the two
children of Myer Cohen. of 22o South
Second Street. which was first located.
1t was floating downstream, toward
the dredge, which lay a little above
the steamship wharf, when Engineer
Farrell sighted 1t. He Immediately no-
titled Captain Cunningham, who sent
two of his crew. Smith and Connor, in
small boat to the body to carry IL
to the wharf, where it was anchored
until the arrival of the father and the
coroner.
Anchorage was made at the foot OF
the gangway for freight and passen-
gers TO the boats of the Old Dominion
Steamship Company, and there the
| body foated until the arrival of po-
lice officers and the coroner.
Recognized by Father.
Some of the men connected with the
steamship company notified Mr.. Cohen.
father of the two boys, and he arrived
before the body was taken from the
water
Policemen Warmer and Duffy. who
were present, attempted to prevent the
father and the grandfather, Asher
But nothing could hold the fatRefr
back He rushed to the waters edge,
and looked below.
yes. my Cod he cried, that's my
son" They drew him back from the
wharf. afraid, of further accident. Tho
body was drawn in at the end of i
rope, and wrapped in winding sheets
was carried away by wagon be-
| longing to Bliley's undertaking estab-
| lishment. III
The body of the elder boy. Make.
| who lost his life in attempting to
save his brother, was found just after
the steamer Pocahontas left her wharf
The strong suction of the steamers
propellers drew the corpse to within
thirty feet OF the wharf, and there,
under the light of the electric lamps
of the pier. 1t was discerned in mid
stream by Andrew Carter, Willie
Goode and AL Johnson, colored, em-
ployes of the Old Dominion Steam
ship Company. Carried In by the
towards them. and they recognized 1t
as that of a drowned boy.
Brought In to Wharf.
Putting out in small boat, they
caught the inanimate object with
graphing hooks. and towed it into
the dock, where they cast around 1t
the moose end of a long manila rope.
Dangling at the end OF the rope, the
body lay in the stream until the sec
Of ryyI,a
lifted by two of the same negroes
who had towed 1t in, it was brought
up. Mr.. Cohen and the grandfather.
had gone, having given up hope Of
recovering the second body. and there
We're no friends to recognize the re-
mains. 1t was drawn in. wrapped in
winding sheets and placed In the
wagon.
Neither of the bodies appeared
But both were covered with mud.
showing that they had hoated down
from their drowning place beneath
Captain ThoHas Cunningham, wing
who commands the tugs operating In
that the bodies were brought to tha
surface by the squall of yesterday
and the hot weather. Electric storms
act, much as explosion OF DYNAMITE
If the bodies, as result of eSpanss
sion, are almost In a condition to RISE
such explosions and disturbances Of
the water bring them to the surface.
Washed by the Rocks.
But it had been the general opinion
that the bodies of the two boys would
be found in the vicinity of their death:
that they would be found tied fast to
the base of one OF the pillars of the
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway viaduct,
which passes above, or at the foot OF
one of the fish traps below
But they escaped the pillars and the
traps, and got by the rocks and the
natural dam which exists below. Evi-
dently they We're caught In the middle
of the current and carried under water
to the point where they We're found.
Mayor Richardson yesterday offered
s25 reward for the recovery of the
bodies But this reward will not be-
claimed by those who went from tho
city dredge to recover the body of Sid-s
ney Cohen. Captain Cunningham SAYS
that they We're working In the employ
of the CITY, and that they simply per-
formed their duty. b