Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-10
Nine DROWN IN
JERSEY WATERS
Brother of One Climbs Into Pad
dIe-Wheel Box and Narrowly
Escapes Death.

Twenty-three people we're drowned
In waters in this vicinity yesterday.
Five of them were Jerseymen. John
kaufman, twenty-seven years old, OF
Perth Amboy, was drowned when the
suction from the ferryboat Perth
Amboy capsized rowboat, in which
he and his brother, Michael, were
fishing early yesterday. Michael was
saved by climbing in the paddle
wheel box of the boat, where he was
found some time later.
John Busch, of Passaic, dived from
a roWboat in the Passaic river and
was drowned. 1t is believed that he
took cramps Friends diyed for his
body and recovered it.
Clarence Milligan, of So Main ave-
nue. Passaic, tried to swim across the
Passaic river to Wellington with
Walter DeGroot and Raymond Will
son. He was almost across when he
became exhausted and called for aid.
Wilson was the first to reach him,
and Milligan frantically threw his
arms about him, and both Went
down. In a terrific struggle under
water, Wilson freed himself from
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surface, too exhausted to dive again
for his companion.
The fourth victim was Michael An
CELLO. of 235 Amity street, Elizabeth.
The other victims were Marshall A.
Gross, twenty years old, OF Philadel-
phia, who was drowned at Brant
Beach; James Armstrong, nine years
old, of Railway, who fell from an old
dock into the Railway river; lsidor
Weldman, who unsuccessfully tried to
swim from Alpine to Yonkers; Knud
Beck, sixty five, of Sheltenham, Pa,
who fell from a rowboat into the
Cooper river. off Camden, and an un-
identified man, who went bathing in
the same locality
The Perth Amboy accident was one
of the most peculiar ever happening
in the Staten Island sound. The two
Kaufmans started out at O'CLOCK
yesterday morning in small bat
teau to fish. They rowed about 200
feet from the Perth Amboy ferry slip.
The fog was so thick that they an
chorerd and cast off their lines.
The ferryboat Perth Amboy, in
charge of Captain Raymond Ellis,
bore down on the smaller craft. Cap.
tain Ellis did not see the boat until
about twenty-five yards ahead. He
The suction of the ferryboat over
turned the rowboat. John Kaufman
was caught in the anchor rope of the
boat and held under the upturned
craft. Michael Kaufman, an expert
swimmer made for the ferryboat. He
climbed through the paddle wheel
compartment.
Boats were lowered from the ferry
beat and all effort to locate Michael
Kaufman proved futile. The bell was
rung for the boat to start when hu-
man sounds were heard coming from
the paddle wheel compartment.
Deckhands yelled to Captain Ellis
and he countermanded the starting
signal. Investigation by the deck
hands resulted in the finding of Kauf-
man in an unconscious condition in
the paddle wheel box If his cries had
not been heard he would have been
ground to pieces. The Kaufmans re-
side at III Stockton street, Perth
Amboy. The drowned man was
single.
Michael Angelo. of Elizabeth. was
overcome by heat as he was crab
bling in Staten Island sound He fell
into the water and was drowned. His
body was recovered.
The other drownings were in New
York and along the Staten Island
shores. The warm weather brought
hundreds to the water, resulting in
the large number of casualties