The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-27


OF the other boys playfully pushed lit
tie Sidney from the bank. He fell
into deep water and Make. the older
boy. seeing his brothers. danger,
jumped in TO save him. He caught
hold of sIdney's arm. and together the3
were swept out Into the current. The
little fellows chung to each other. The
father, fishing from the bank, looked
MP as he heard shout OF warming
and saw n golden head bobbing In the
boiling waters.
With cry for help lie sprang into
the river. Whether he sprang from the
top OF the wall about fifteen feet high,
or from its base, he doesn't remember.
He recalls only that he saw golden
head going down stream and that he
knew 1t was his son. But they were
carried beyond iIis reach, and he found
himself struggling in midstream. with
no one to help. He saw a man on the
river bank, and as he ROSE to the sur
face lie waved his hat, TO which he had
rlung all the time, and gurgied out n
cry for help. For an instant he stood
upright on n rock in the middle OF the
current. but was washed from his foot
hold. He was visible no more until
he iioated on to the fish trap. $50 feet
below, where the waters swirled about
him, threatening every minute to get
him In their fatal embrace. The chill.
dren We're not seen again.
Rescued by Earl Nicholas.
Earl Nicholas. from a point lower
down the river, saw the body hit upon
the fish trap lie realized that haste
was necessary. and without waiting to
go around to the bottom of the wall, he
climbed down the slender wire rope.
Treading water close to the wall and
avoiding the dangerous current, he got
within close reach of the trap and
then breasted the stream. lie landed
safely on the trap and drew the I'M
conscious form UP to the top. Others
came to his help, and they used the
means known to every good swimmer
to reshscitate she half-drowned man
They held him until Hudgins came with
his boat, and all went together down
TO seventeenth Street Nicholas left
the scene soon after his brave act.
The news of the drowning spread
rapidly, and in half an hour there were
scores of people on the bank, and many
men hraNed the current in boats and
naked in the water to find the bodies
of the little children.
Searching for the Bodies.
Pat Wood, an employee of the Trede
gar Iron Works. and one of the best
swimmers in Richmond, took off his
clothes and went into the river He
sounded the deep holes and around the
bases of the pillars supporting the
Chesapeake and Ohio trestle. whore
the current is swiftest Frequently he
went down, but he could not locate
the bodies. Hand over hand, like n
giant fish, he swan about, and finally
mad to give up the struggle Frank
Donatf. an able riverman, poled about
where, but he, 100, was unsuccessful.
Three members of the Virginia Boat
CLUB put on their bathing suits and
rowed up to the scene of the fatality
ana helped in the search. Ii, is Thought
that the little bodies will probably he
found lying against the base OF ono Of
the piers. Pat Wood went into tho
water again, but was again unsuccess-
full.
He said 1T would be necessary to
walt until the power house closed
GOWN, when the current would be less
strong, before the bodies could he re
covered. He is swimmer of no,e
and teaches the useful ar. to his
children. 1t is his practice to cast a
four-year- old son into tho canal and
then bring him out. The yotngster
likes 1T, and is unafraid The water
holds no terror for him. for he knows
that his father can save him. A few
more trials and he will be swimming
before he is five years cid.
The search WAS kept up for many
hours, but all the work was futile.
Took the Boys Fishing.
MF' Cohen often goes to the river
hsh!ng. but yesterday was the nrst
tlme that he had taken the boys. They
pleaded TO go, and Mrs. Cohen said
that they might go. They started
out at II o'clock. Shortly before .
e o'clock Mr.. Cohen was brought back
without them. Little Sidney cele-
brated his eighth birthday last Friday.
Mr. Cohen recalled the fact as he Law
In bed and broke again into tears.
Make is but TWO years older. There
are two other children-Jasper. aged
SIN. and Leila, aged three years Mr.,
Cohen is thirty-nine years old, and
MS wife is nine years younger.
When Mrs. Cohen learned of the
accident from her husbands lips, she
rushed from the house down to the
river Asher Michael. her father. of
Second and Canal Streets. Joined her,
They wanted to go to the riverside,
hut friends Gearing that they might
leap into the' water restrained them
from going nearer After giving vent,
TO the first wild pangs of GRIEF thev
We're gently led away.
NO funeral arrangements can be
made until the recovery of the bodies.
The search will be kept up until they
are recovered, for many willing, hands
will watch the river until the small
bodies rise TO the waters surface
again.