New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-10
u LIVES LOST IN
WATERS NEAR CITY
Bather Sinks in Flushing
Bay with Crowd and
Boats Near.

\
terday in the waters adjacent TO New
York, four going down At once az
Greenwich, Conn, and a fOur-year-old
girl disappearing in Jamaica Creeh
while her father was fishing. Her body
was found later, floating on the water
Of the creek.
Thc most spectacular drowning was
that of william Cohen. Of 204 East
25th st.. who lost his life in Flushing
Bay while at least 500 persons, many
Of them in rowboats trying to rescue
him, saw his struggles. Edward HUI
man, Of 81 East 32d ST., VINO was with
him i'm the water, made desperate ell
forts to save him, but failed.
Both young men were fair swimmers.
They went into the water at East Elm
hurst from a bathing pavilion near the
breakwater. Cohen was IN the lead,
and about hundred feet from shore
when he suddenly yelled, then sank.
Hillman shouted for aid and swan TO
the place where his friend had disap-
peared.
Cohen's BODY did not come to the
surface, and though Hillman Owed
several times he was unable to md ~.
Reinhardt Ehrhardt, of 1882 De kalo
ay.. Brooklyn, was so intent on ms hsh-
ing that he paid little attention TO
little Johanna, his daughter, who had
been playing about on the pier from
which he had thrown his line.
When he had caught enough fish ne
looked fer the child, but she was not
to be found. His alarm brought sey-
oral people, who assisted in the searchI
which ended when the body of the little
girl was seen floating on the creek
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Four Lost at One Time.
Nicola Larlssa, Nicholas Camellio,
Michael Casino and his brother Do
menico went in bathing at the lagoon
ir Halloween Park, Greenwich, and as
none could swim they waded about IN
the shallow water. Becoming adyen-
turous, they waded out into hole
caused by dredger and before assist
ance could reach them all were dead.
/ Joseph Nelson was caught in a strong
/ tide in the East River, of Corlears
| Hook, and carried out from recrea-
ton pier. John O'C0nnor, of SO jack
son St., an attendant. jumped in, but
Nelson was carried away and drowned,
His wife and two children waited all
day for Fritz Blaski to return from a
fishing trip of Sayville, Long Island,
and then the word arrived that he had
been drowned in Browns River He
started late Saturday night to be early
at the fishing grounds, and it is sup
posed he rolled from the cabin of his
toat in his sleep.
Swim Costs Lads Life.
Isidor Wellman, fifteen years old, Of
III Ashburton av., Yonkers, was
drowned in the Hudson River yester-
day while attempting to swim from
Alpine, n. j., to Yonkers. About 800
feet from the Jersey shore cramp
doubled him up and he sank. Herman
Webold, of Alpine, dove for the body
and recovered it.
Believed to have been drowned when
his rowboat was struck by ferryboat
which plies between Perth Amboy and
Tottenwille yesterday afternoon, the
body of John Kaufman, twenty-seven
years old, of III Chauncey ST., Perth
Amboy, n. j., was found under the up
turned rowbOat. The mans foot had
caught in rope, and this prevented
him from getting free when the boat
overturned.
The body of an unidentified youth,
clad in a bathing suit, which had beer
in the water less than twelve hours,
off Woodland Beach, Staten Island,
Yesterday afternoon and removed to
McGinley's morgue, at Stspleton. The
bathing suit, the police say, is of the
style usually worn by campers at the
beach.
Explosions of dynamite and of lime
have failed to bring up the body Of
Marion Collins, Of "a Clinton Place,
Brooklyn, who was drowned in Lake
Oscawanna, near Peekskill, on Thurs.
day.
The Rev. f. J. Ripping, of Mount
Vernon, yesterday recovered the body
of Ethel Woodell, who was drowned in
Lake Waccabuc on Saturday.
Patrolman Foley, of the Old Slip
station, went into the East River after
a prisoner last night. He saw Carl
Carlson, sailor, of 81 South St, stag
ger into the river from the pier at Wall
st. and jumped in, with his uniform
on, and towed the man back to where
a rope was waiting to lift them both
TO the pier. After an ambulance sur
geon from Hudson Street Hospital had
attended Carlson he was locked up on
a charge of intoXicatioE.
Paterson, n. j., Aug. g. While in a
boat with three men John Busch, of
1245 Madison ay., fell into the Passaic
River near Singac this afternoon and
was drowned. II is said the men were
rocking the boat and it overturned.
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