New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-24
Husband Sees Wife SINK
to Death-Many Saved
from Water Peril.
TWO YOUTHS LOST
WITH FRIENDS NEAR
One Victim Takes Fatal Dive 10
Escape Heat-Boys Rescue
Lad After Struggle.

Five ncrsons we're drowned and sew
cral rescued in the waters ABOUT '"''
city yesterday. ,
Mrs. David Miller Of 554 Jackson
av.. Jersey City, went out with ner
husband and their child on the launch
Silver Fox in Newark Bay yesterday
afternoon.
When the launch got out into deep
water Mrs. Miller donned her bathing
suit and clambered on 10 the side OF
the boat. She fell off, and being un-
able to swim was carried swiftly
away BY the tide. The launch had
been anchored and Miller could not
swim. By the time he got the boat
moving again Mrs. Miller had disap-
reared Her body was recovered.
The eleven members Of the Cam
montown Social and Athletic Club, Of
Jersey City, all young men, went to
Coney Island yesterday in a twenty
five-foot motor boat belonging TO one OF
the members, Jacob Klosowski, nine
teen years old, Of l12 Essex St, Jersey
City.
On the return trip the motor baked
when they were off 39th ST., Brooklyn.
Klosowski was working on 1t when
roller caused by large steamer pass
ing overturned the motor boat and
threw all the young men into the
water
All but Klosowski got to the keel Of
the boat and chung on. Klosowski was
not seen afterward. A junk boat res
cued the youths, and they were brought
to the foot Of Henderson ST., Jersey
City.
Joseph Zimmerman. sixteen. of ga
fSqth ST.. The Bronx, was drowned yes
terday while swimming in Reiss's Pond,
in Bronx Park. With him at the time
were several companions. They failed
TO reach him.
While heading across Great South
Ray for Babylon, Long Island, IN a
motor boat with several friends, Will
lam Schultz, of Babylon, fell into the
water.
Schultz was not a good swimmer.
Life preservers were tossed TO him, but
he could not grasp any Of them, ana
before his friends could get to him ne
had drowned.
Another victim was Richard bergen.
Overheated. he Owed into the Hudson
from tugboat lying off Storm King
Mountain, above Peekskill. Cramps
seized him and he was drowned.
George Sofhia, nine years old, OF 5f3
West 13Oth St, swimming in the North
River, off l38th St, became exhausted
and signalled for help. Three boys on
the bank saw him and quickly went TO
his cid. They brought him in. Sofhia
was taken home.
Henry Nogt, forty-eight, of l4O 10Th
St. Brooklyn, while swimming in the
North River, near the Jersey shore,
opposite Hath ST., was overcome. Two
men and two women. occupants Of
motor boat, brought him to the pier of
the Federal Motor Boat Club, at the
foot of 141st st. He will recover.
Cramps overcame Frank Hughes,
thirteen. of SAT West 59th ST., while
he was bathing off the foot of Dyck-
man st. He was in midstream when
seen by sixteen-year-o Castor
Crosby, of % Ardon ST.. who was on a
float. Crosby swan out and got 10
Hughes as he was sinking for the third
time. He got him 10 shore, where a
pulmotor was used for an hour before
Hughes was resuscitated.
Charles L. Bolton, of 1874 Park Place,
and Joseph Schwab, of 3s4 Pacific St,
Brooklyn, went canoeing yesterday,
starting from Sheepshead Bay and
making toward Steeplechase Park.
When they were about three hundred
yards Off Dreamland Pier their canoe
was caught in a chopy sea and cap
sized. Bolton could not swim, but by
the aid Of Schwab he managed to get
a hold on the canoe, where they both
clung until Samuel Barrows and Irving
Daniels. lifecnards rescued than