Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1912-01-02
TWO BOYS DIE
IN SMALL POND
Thin Ice Breaks and lulius
and Andrew Sutak Disap-
pear from View.
REsCUERs' WORK FUTILE
Fatal Pond on I. Y. r. r.
Property--6iri Saved Year
Ago Bodies Recovered.
REsCUERS' WORK FUTILE


While at play sliding on Ice. Jus
lius and Andrew Sutak. nine and
eleven years old. respectively, OF I62
Lynde street, met an untime1y death
BY drowning on Lehigh Valley rail-
road property Just south Of the
United Lead Company's plant yes-
terday afternoon. The lads went
Own near the middle ofsa pond about
= hundrd feet square almost In the
same spot where about year ago
Mary Deleman, ten year old girl.
was rescued from drowning after
she had fallen through the ice.
Frank Andersen who risked his life
In saving her pulled the Satak boys
from the pond yesterday but as they
had boen in tho water about forty
five minutes life was extinct Three
physicians were summoned but their
services were not necessary. Be
cause OF the absence Of Coroner
James J. Flynn, Patrolman T.. c..
Jensen took 1t upon himself to give
permission for removal OF the bodies:
to the home OF their parents
Rescuers Use RoWboat.
Il was a pathetic scene on the,
banks OF the pond as the Iifeless
forms OF the lads were lifted from
the Icy water Into q rowboat in
which the rescuers were at work
Women wrung their hands and wept.
Men and boys ran anxiously about
and there was general excitement.
about the place until the remains
had been removed to the Sutak
home. There followed q scene far
more pathetic than the other. For
| the first time the weeping mother
and father saw the lifeIess bodies
of their dead sons and the two little
sisters and surviving brother OF the
boys cast their eyes upon the re-
mains. They cried and the parents
almost became hysterfcal.
While the bodies laid In the boat
In which they had been placed after
father was on his way to the banks
OF the pond to view them. He was
met by police officers and restrained
and advised to 60 back home as it
was thought the sight or the dead
forms might seriously effect him.
Saw Boys Break Through.
Frank Andersen, who Iigea at 7Sa
Parker street, saw the boys sink al
he waH sitting locking out OF vim
dow at his home He rushed from
4 the house and met Edward Berger.
OF le1 Chauneey street, to whom he
yelled, The pair ran to- secure a
flatbottom bont nearby and hurried
with 1t TO the pond With a garden.
rake and q slender clothes pole they
prodded about for half an hour be-
bore the lifeless form Of julius, the
youngest OF the victims. was reeoy-
cred. About fifteen minutes later
the form ct Andrew, Was drawn to
rsue surface During the last few
moments OF the search the crowd on
the westerly bank OF the pond grew
excited and restless aud manw mar
rowly missed being pushed over
board. When the boat containing
the bodies and rescuers wAs hauled
ashore by means OF q rope, the
crowd serged close to the water and
several policemen lead by Patrolman
|L. G. Jensen had difficulty In pre-
serving order. DR. NJ s. Meinzer,
DIR. G. w. Tyrrell and DR. Charles
| I. Silk we're summoned.
The boys had been sliding and
playing about the pond for an hour
or more before the accident The
pond Is one formed by filing on
three. sides and by the pipe line OF
| the big North Amhoy trunk sewer at
Its Bontherly end, and which acts as
a dam. 1t Is seven or eight feet
ldaep about the middle. The boys
slid out to the center of 1t, one Of
them at one time using sled. They
abandoned the sled and ran of the
banks to slide on their shoes out
towards the center.
Both Fan In ansue Hole.
About O'Clock 1ne accident hap
| thin Ice. Andrew, the older boy,
took good run and slid towards
1.-THE center, Julius followed III close
proximity. Andrew broke through
the ice near the center -and julius
followed him second or two later
Into the same hole.
Andersen and Berger were pushed
out to the hole by willing hands and
the search for the bodies WIS ear-
ried on. Andersch fshed up both OF
them by the aid of garden rake.
Its prongs caught in the shoestrlngs
solding shoes on the little victims.
On December 4, 1910, Mrs An
dersch sat In a window and saw
Mary DeIeman sink almost In the
same spot where The Sutak boys
went down yesterday She aroused
Eher husband and he ran and rescued
1.-THE girl at the risk OF his life.
Coroner Makes Statement.
In the future when Coroner J. J.
Elynu is out OF the city or otherwise
unable TO act rs coroner, policemen
must not act In his place he says,
as 1t Is contrary to law. Coroner
Flynn made a detailed investigation
OF the accident and viewed the re-
mains. After the bodies OF the boys
had laid IN the boat for an hour or
I SO and calls for the coroner ayailed
nothing the officer gave permission
to remove the remains. willing
hands carried them to their late
home Funeral arrangements are
being made.
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