The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-08-14
TEACHER DIES IN NIGHT SWIM
FWO GIRL FRIENDS PULLED
~ NJ LIFE SAVERS.

Miss Madeline Dillen Lost In the Breakers
Of Sheepshead nay -Maloney Sisters
Almost Drowned Trying 10 Find
Her-Were All In q Launch Party.
Three members ~ the United States
Volunteer Life Saving Corps at Sleeps
head Ray heard cries for help out in the
darkness last night and when they reached
the spot on the beach from which the
cries came they we're told by woman
hysterical from fright that some girls
were drowning in the surf.
The lifesavers plunged into the water
and after cropping around in the darkness
for several minutes came upon a girl
who was Just able to keep aAoat. Two
OF the men dragged her to the beach
while the other swan around in search
Of any one else who might be struggling
in the water He found the sister Of the
girl who had been rescued floating un-
conscious on the waves and swan to shore
with her.
The sisters we're Frances and Florence
Maloney. While they were being brought
in to safety a third girl. whom they had
tried to save. drowned because no one
was able to tell the lifesavers that she
was in danger.
Madeline Dillen. the girl who was
drowned. was teacher in Public School
20. Manhattan. and lived at 37S Pleasant
avenue. On Saturday she went to
Sheepshead Bay to visit her two friends
the Maloney girls. who were staying
at boarding house kept by a Mrs.
Antonio Zupo on Emmons avenue
Last night after dinner the three girls
with Mrs Zupo got into a small gasolene
launch AT Sheepshead Bay and sailed to
the east end of the bay. where they beached
at Manhattan Beach Point. All four
women were in their bathing suits and
were going to take night dip in the surf
The Maloney sisters and their guest
could swim little but were not experts.
There was a moderately heavy surf rolling
in and the water was inky black with no
lights in the vicinity.
Mrs. Zupo and the girls sat around
on the beach for a while and the launch
in which they had come sputtered back
to Sheepshead Bay. where it was to wait
an hour or so before returning for the
party.
The women finally went into the water
and after few minutes Miss Dillen ewam
ont over the oombers and was lost to
sight in the darkness. Her companions
supposed that she was near by and paid
no attention to her until they heard her
cry for help.
Mrs Zupo was unable to swim. but the
Maloney girls at once struck out in an
effort TO find their friend. They were
able to get only direction from the
cries. which grew continually weaker.
The Maloney girls swan around for a
few minutes and then they too became
exhausted from their efforts to keep afioat
in the surf. They yelled for help and
tried TO get back 10 the beach. but they
had by this time lost all sense of direction
and their plight was made worse by the
terror which suddenly came upon them
as they swan about in the murky black
hess unable even 10 find their way TO land.
Mrs. Zupo. thoroughly frightened. tried
to guide the girls to the beach and also
to summon aid. Not more than 200
Yards from the place where the girls had
beenbathingwas station of.theUnitedStates at es
Volunteer Life Saving Corps, Three OF the
members were on duty, Frederick Lear
OF East Thirty-frst street and Emmons
avenue. Sheepshead Bay: Edward Elliott.
a swimming instructor in the public baths,
who lives at l78 Prospect Park West
Brooklyn. and Robert Burke, a brokerage
clerk. who lives on Sixth avenue.
The three men sprinted toward the
cries and waited only a second to hear
from Mrs. Iupo that some girls were
drowning.
Florence Maloney was still conscious
and was crying feebly for help. Burke
and Elliott found her floating. almost
ready to sink from fatigue. They towed
her to the beach and left Lear to find
the others.
BY mere chance he came upon Frances
Maloney. She was unconscious and Lear
had little trouble getting her ashore
The three men then began to work over
her, They got the water from her ali
passages and supplied artificial respira-
ton which soon brought her to,
II WAS twenty minutes or more before
the men learned that there was still an
other girl who had not been brought in
One OF them stayed on the beach to work
over Frances Maloney while the other
two went into the water again to search
minutes and finally were obliged to give
up. for they too were tired out.
A telephone call to the Coney Island
Hospital brought DR.. Sonnenshein and
| DR.. Frank Lyme of Ocean avenue was
also called, The bottom WAS dragged
| by the police and within a few minutes
the body OF Miss Dillen was brought up.
1t was taken TO the beach and the two doc
tors at once began TO work while the Rev
j. j. Mccarthy Of st, Marks Roman
Catholic Church pronounced the last rites
of the Church.
The accident occurred not far from the
Oriental Hotel. Several automobiles on
their way to Manhattan were attracted
by the crowd which had gathered on the
| beach. One OF the motorists was Garfield
Kemp vice president of the United States
Volunteer Life Saving Corps.
When he found that the men were work
| ing over the body Mr.. Kemp got some
! bottles and filed them with hot water from
, the radiators of his own and other cars
| These were placed around the girl in an
| effort to get her blood circulating. but
she failed to revive The doctors said
| that she had been seized with cramps
and probably had gone down very quickly
Mrs. Zupo and the Maloney girls were
able TO go home after they had been
treated by the physicians