Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-08-21
MANY RESCUED
AS BOATS CRASH
IN NEWARK BAY
Launch Wild Duck Rammed by
Tug Sinks in Three
Minutes.
ElGHTYsTHREE FACE DEATH
AS BOAT is CUT IN TWO
Passenger of Anthony R, One of
the Heroes, Tells Story
to Star.

Eighty-three Newark excursionlsts
lowing a spectacular collision between
two naphtha launches and tug boat
Charles W. Yochum, 81 years old. or
5l4 Bergen street captain of the An
thony r.. is in the City Hospital suf-
fering from a badly sprained back ana
probable internal injuries His eondi .
ton is improving today
Mrs. Mary Ritter 20 years old, of BIG
Sixteenth avenue, bride of not three
months and the only woman. was car
ried screaming Historically by her hus-
band, and 19-year-od Herbert Weak
lien, from the Anthony r.. across the
deck of the sinking Wild Duck to the
tug.
The accident occurred in Newark Bay
near the jack-knife bridge of the Cen
trail Railroad of New Jersey.
Tug Cuts Wild Duck Nearly In Two.
a tug, the Archie Crossman, slipped
through toward the fishing boats. An
instant latter with a splintering crash
the tugboat rammed the Wild Duck.
cutting it almost in two and jammins
II against the Anthony r.
! Captain Yochum wc caught in the
companionway when he cabin was
crushed in. Theodore Auer. of 591
Springfield avenue, standing i'm
mediately behind the captain, mrac-
ulousy escaped injury. A handful of
others were imprisoned IN the cabin.
They climbed out through the engine
room.
In the twilight the deck of the ether
boat presented wild sight. dozen
from the Anthony r. sprang aboard
to quell the panic.
: AS quickly as possible many of the
men were dragged and carried to the
I rail- and helped over to the tug.
( Six Fought to Save Frenzied Man.
Six of the excursiorists from the
Anthony r. had desperate, but brief.
struggle with a man who tried to throw
, himself overheard. He was subdued
and put on board the tug
All the time the iron canopy of the
Wild Duck was dropping nearer and
nearer the tugs deck. ]. H. Weak
, lien, the last man to leave the sink
ing boat, WAS caught and badly
squeezed His hand was crushed before
he could draw it away so rapidly did
the Wild Duck settle.
He told his story of the accident to
an Evening STAR reporter today
I'VE must have been thirty feet south
of the bridge In the Anthony r. The
other launch-the Wild Duck-was
coming UP alongside. The bridge
, opened.
I'VE couldn't see anything of the tug.
Suddenly 1t whistled. Then saw what
would happen.
1.-THE crash broke down our stairway
and smashed the cabin. The captain
was caught inside. SO were some
others and they had to climb out
Could Feel Deck sinking.
I'VE rushed from the Anthony r. to
the sinking boat and helped a number
of the men onto the tug We could
feel the deck going down beneath us
We didn't know how many were
penne1 in the cabin.
MY son helped carry girl from the
Anthony r. across the Wild Duck to
the tug. One man tried to jump over
board and fought frantically. 1t took
six men to quiet him.
After the boat went down the tug
and the Anthony r. swung together.
Some of us got back. Others, with my
son, didn't have time. They werc car
ried away by the tug and taken to
Bayonne.
Captain Yochum, although badly in
jured, directed the Anthony RS trip
back to the wharf. Ernest C. Kastner,
Of 34S South orange avenue, Vailsburg,
is the owner of the boat. t had been
on it's Sunday fishing trip to Seabright.
The Wild Duck was chartered fer tho
day by the Frederick Pielsch, jr., Fish
ing Club, whose headquarters are at 10
Springdale avenue.