New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-08-12
|SEvEN ARE DROWNED
| IN SUNDAY ACCIDENTS
Four Lose Life in the Hudson
and Two at Manhattan
Beach.
BROTHERS DIE TOGETHER
Five Children Are Thrown from
Boat by Collision with
Launch, but All Are
Rescued.

day. while swimming In the HUDSON
River three off Dyckman street and
one near Yonkers. and party or hve
children in rowboat was run down py
launch off l54th street and thrown
into the water. All the children were
rescued by persons on the launch
Many other swimmers had narrow es-
capes from drowning in the waters OF
the Hudson.
Two young men, afterward identihed
as Harry and William Lewboschitz'
brothers, of No. 1906 Washington ave-
nue.. The Bronx. went in swimming off
the shore near Dyckman street. short
" after o'clock. They left their
clothing in charge of their three-yea
old brother Samuel, and waded out
into the river. After swimming about
for a time. one of the men seemed 70
get cramp. and the other went 10
his rescue. Both sank several times.
and were finally caught in the swift
eddies Of the river ana whirled below
the aurface.
Peter Meyer. station agent at the
Spuyten Duyvil station Of the New
York Central Railroad. saw the men
struggling in the water and commune
Gated with the Kingsbridge police sta
ton. Patrolman Coleary was sent to
investigate. In the mean time several
persons on the shore who had seen the
men in the water called to Richard
Cox. who keeps a boathouse at 2O3d
street. Cox put out to the spot where
the men were last seen in one OF his
launches. but the brothers did not re-
appear on the surface. Cox and one
of his employees then procured Crap
ping irons, and after an hours work
recovered the bodies.
The bodies were taken TO Cox's boat
house. and then the boy who had been
set to watch his brothers clothing was
found by Coleary The child could not
tell the police anything about his own
Identity or that Of the swimmers.
Peisach Lewboschitz. father of the
young men. went TO the fremont ponce
station later in the day and asked that
general alarm be sent out for his sor
Samuel. who had gone out early In the
evening and had not returned. He
was sent to the Kingsbridge police sta
ton. where he was told that boy was
being detained. There he found mis-
son Samuel and learned Of the death
OF William and Harry.
About the same time that the broth
ers were drowned Miss Clara Wenke,
OF No 1916 Ogden avenue, The Bronx.
hired "A rowboat at Henry Lute's boat
house. at West lJ4th street. and went
out on the river with five children,
Robert Wenke. her cousin; Carl Stein
er. of No. l85 West l65th street; Will
lam Bushardt and his sister Anna. Of
No. 100 West l62d street. and Nellie
Phelan, of No. 1913 Eighth avenue.
Children Alone in Boat.
All were clad in their bathing suits,
and. after padding about for fifteen
minutes. Miss Wenke returned 10 the
bathhouse at 154th street, leaving the
children alone in the boat While Miss
Wenke was putting on her clothes she
heard persons on the bathing float
shouting and the screams of the chill
dren In her party. She rushed out Of
her bathhouse and saw her cousin and
the other children struggling in the
water. Their boat had been capsized
by a gasolene launch coming down the
river.
According to Lutte. who witnessed the
accident. the launch was the Hoquiam,
n twenty eightfoot boat, with ten per-
sons aboard. Just how the collision
occurred is not known, but the bow
OF the launch struck the rowboat In the
stern, turning ii over. All the children
We're thrown into the river except
for the Flagstaff OF the Hoquaim as the
boats came together. He managed to
pull himself To the deck Of the boat AMI
then helped the Steiner boy on board.
NtlIle f'ueIdH, an tAptTl SN llilllieT,
went to the rescue OF the Bushardt
children, who We're trying to cling t.
the overturned boat. but were in dan
ger of being swept down by the cur
rent. She managed to get hold Of Anna
Bushardt by the hair. and was battling
with the current in an effort to reach
the boat again, which had by this time
drifted down the river, when she be-
came exhausted.
Just when il seemed as II the two
girls would drown. John Hughes. one
OF the party on the launch, dived into
the water and pulled the girls on board
the launch. He then returned and res
cued the Bushardt boy.
The Launch Disappears.
The name Of the owner of the launch
could not be learned, and before the ar
rival of the police the boat put out int }
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