New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-02
lb-Year-Old Heroine and
Clergyman Drag Men
from Water.
MOUNTED POLICEMAN
DASHES INTO SURF
Youth. Under Water 10 Minutes,
Revived Many DrowningS
Sadden Holiday Crowds.

Spectacular rescues. one by a priest
and girl and another by a mounted
patrolman. who charged into the surf
on his horse to save woman, fur
nished thrills for bathers on New York
beaches yesterday. A third man
brought to the surface a youth who
had sunk ten minutes before and aided
in his revival with a pulmotor. A
girl swimmer saved a young woman
who had fallen from a raft. Several
drownings were reported.
Three priests of the Catholic Church
OF st. Rose Of Lima left their rectory,
near Rockaway Beach, yesterday after
noon for a swim in the surf. Two of
them. Fathers John Griffin and James
King. ventured out too far. Father
John Brennon had returned to shore.
when he heard cries. and, turning. saw
his associates struggling together be-
yond the life lines. Inc undertow had
gripped Father Griffin and when
Father King had gone TO his aid the
drowning man had clssped him tight
and both were sinking.
The lifeguards on the beach were
not in sight, and Father Brennon
plunged into the surf and struck out
toward the struggling men. He was
followed by Theresa Kane. sixteen
years old, and between them they
towed the two priests to shore. The
girl disappeared before the rescued
men could thank her.
Horse Helps Rescue.
While Mounted Patrolman O'Brien,
Of the Westchester station, was trot-
ting his horse along the beach at
Throg's Neck yesterday he saw a wom-
an fifty yards from shore throw up
her hands and scream for help. Astride
his mount, O'Brien dashed through the
shadows. When his horse got beyond
his depth the animal struck out brave
" toward the drowning woman, while
the patrolman chung 10 the saddle
pommel with one hand and guided him
with the other.
O'Bnen grasped the woman's hair
as he came along side and then turned
his horse and headed for shore. When
safe on land she gave her name as Mrs.
Catherine ODaleen, of 100 West Six
tieth Street She had swum out a good
distance and had then become ex-
hausted. Her husband was hurrying
TO her rescue, but the patrolman on
his swimming horse beat him.
Nicholas Langetto, eighteen, of 800
East Fftieth Street, was swimming in
Pelham Bay yesterday when cramps
seized him and he sank. Major Joseph
Lamb. commodore of lifesaving
station near by, put out in a boat TO
the place where the boy had sunk,
dived several times and brought him
10 the surface. An ambulance was
called from Fordham Hospital and af-
ter Langctto had been worked over with
pulmotor for some time he revived.
Girl Saves Girl.
Miss Jeanette Turner, Of Ridge
field. y. j., saved the life of Miss
Alvord at Peach Lake. near Peekskill
yesterday. Miss Alvord, who cannot
swim, slipped from the raft on which
she was standing and sank. When
she rose TO the surface, she screamed
for help and Miss Turner, one of the
colony Of campers at the lake, plunged
in and brought her 70 shore.
Stephen Haight. Of 1872 Pacific Ave
nue., Jersey City, dived into the Hack
ensack River near the Central Rail
road bridge yesterday and was drowned
without resppearing. His friend Ed
ward Miller, summoned help, but at
tempts TO recover the body were not
successful.
Police yesterday recovered the body