New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-05

VS., .sth street; drowned in Hudson River
or s7,h street.
COIN. David sixteen years old, No 423 ., fan
ssds avenue Jersey Ciis dro"ns' '"
poLAN. Miss Margaret. twenty-five years o'd.
20 4o5 Warren street, drowned at ksans
burg. y. J.
DoNoHuE Morris. thirteen years %. G,d uS2 S2 en-
River Of l56th street
FINsTDIN Isasc. nine years old. seized with
cramps while swimming in East River
MANTELL. Charles. seventeen years old 20
2l East 5th street. drowned AZ 3oth street.
Coney Island
MERKER Herbert seventeen Years Ola no, M%
287 skman street. drowned al hoOA
Greek Far Rocksway.
MTJLvANEY. Miss Bessie. twenty four years
old, No sos Warren street. Newark drowned
az Keansburs. n. J.
vANDERHooF, Lester. thirty years cd Sidi Of Of
Newark fell from motor boat on MlnI'n'
Beach staten Island, and was drowned.
WARD. william twenty-one years old No 70, 20,
sklllman street, Brooklyn drowned at HOOK
1 creek Far Rockaway.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN. about thirty-seyen years
Old 3 feet inches. 1875 pounds. light com
rlexion: drowned at south Beach' S'a''"
island
UNIDENTIFIED MAN, about forty Years olo
found floating in East River, az oLsn'Iv '1
street. feet inches ioo pouhTns hTs 1ain HIo,bSt
body taken TO rorsue.
Renrie Barchmer, who heads the list
of fatalities, was with two friends
Nathan Shapiro and Aaron Finkelstein'
who had hired rowboat and got into
bathing suits None Of the men could
swim. but when they got near the Pei
ham Bay baths and found that the water
there was not deep, Barchmer said he
was going 10 dive In.
Owed Into Shallow Water.
His companions urged him not to, as
they knew there was muddy bottom
and many sharp rocks. Figuring, how
ever, that he could come to no harm in
the shallow water, Barchmer dived. His
companions finding Barchmer did not
come 10 the surface again shouted for
help and jumped into the water
\ number Of othe- bathers came up and
dived for the missing man, but could
find no trace of him. Finkestein and
Shapiro, when it was decided that fur
ther search Mas useless, went TO the
=
the matter The Harbor r police were
notified but their search for the body
was ineffective.
A party of FIVE young women from
Newark met with an accident while
bathing i'm the Shrewsbury. at Keans-
burg, y. j.. yesterday. in which two lost
their lives and the others had narrow
escape from a similar fate. In the party
besides the two drowned, whose names
already have been given, were Miss
Veronica Farrell. twenty-five years old,
of No % Newton street; Miss Mary
Drscoll. twenty-five years old. of No.
IS Farmont avenue, and Miss Elizabeth
Kearns, twenty-four years old. of No.
80 Fairmont avenue.
Where the accident happened there Is
ditch. which was probably caused by
the river being dredged. one of the
girls plunged into this, and I'm so doing
pulled another with her Within few
minutes all the women were battling for
their lives Thomas Carey and John
Coiligan. both of Newark. who had seen
the womens plight, swan to their as
sistance, and after much difficulty sue
cceded IN bringing all 10 shore.
several persons who had seen the ac-
cident telephoned for physicians. Five
responded. They worked over the
women for nearly an hour. but two died
while a priest was bending over them
10 administer the last rites OF tn,
Church.
on Saturday Miss Driscolls mother
IL is said. dreamed that something had
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