The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-06-21
hundreds Saved After Thrill
ing Battle For His Life in Surf
at Atlantic City
SEVEN PHILADELPHIA
MEN AMONG DROWNED
All Prominent in Quaker City.
One Life Guard Saves Four
Single Handed Before Sink
ing Exhausted

Atlantic City, June 2o.--Seven Phil
| adelphians all prominent. and a snore
fisherman, were drowned herr today,
and over a hundred others were res
cued only through the most gallant
work ever Witnessed along the beach,
when storm currents, sweeping In
from a storm center several miles on
the coast. developed a sudden offset
and caught bathers by the scores I'M
awares
The known dead are:
Miss Marian r. Dreamer, eighteen,
daughter OF James Creamer, OF Jen-
kintown. Pa: John Lysie. Phiiadei-
phia, lawyer; Philip Arnaid. eighteen.
son of q Philadelphia clothing mee-
chant: william Grow. forty-eight'
Philadelphia: James McCay. nifty, nor
| tst, Philadelphia; Charles J. Matiock.
Philadelphia. Frank Brigham. sixteen,
son Of Commodore Martin g. Brig
ham, Philadelphia: Captain Charles
Green, forty-four, fisherman. Atiantlc
City.
Brothers Efforts Futile
The Phiiadeiphians all lost their
lives of Sovereign Avenue, Chelsea
Miss Craemer, who was stuient
at the Beechwood College, Jenkin-
town. had entered the surf with her
brother. W. Roger Craemer. OF Phil
adeiphia, a lawyer, when the storm
currents caught them. They were
swept apart and Mr.. Craemer. in q
brave tight, lost in his effort to reach
| his sister. who was swept out over
the seas and fiung out of sight unief
each smothering comber.
Mr.. Lysie, a prominent member OF
| the Philadelphia bar, had been stand
| ing on the beach in his bathing suit,
talking with friends. He was the
| fret 10 dash into the surf when Miss
Craemer's screams were heard. Mr..
Lysie gave his own life in the at
tempt
Life Guard Waiter Margerum, sta
toned at this point. dashed into the
sea with nis can buoy He brought in
four unconscious bathers In clearing
his path TO the drowning girl When
| he started out for the fifth time the
ruard was exhausted. He went Down
before he had battled clear OF the
second line of breakers. He was later
washed ashore and rushed to the hos
pital where he is now recovering
BY the time Life Guard John Zeli
and Irwin Craig arrived. there were
twenty or more unconscious bathers
fioating around. They brought all they
could reach ashore. Craig finally fell
exhausted on the beach and was taken
As fast as the unconscious bathers
were brought ashore puimotors were
used by surgeons. This kept the death
list down.
A Gallant Attempt
One OF the most gallant attempts at
rescue, that proved futye. was that
Accomplished by DR.. John Coulter.
who went out and started ashore with
sixteen year-old Frank Brigham. his
brother-in-law. He finally reached
shallow water to fall apparentiysdead
in the surf. The boy was clingfng to
his neck. Before help reached him the
bow had been washed away and the
body is still missing. DIR. Coulter was
revived
James r. Leach. of Evansburg,
Pa. graduate OF the University of
Pennsylvania few days fago. was
rescued by Charles walk,J OF Phila-
delphia, after he had madeleine stirring
rescues
These were but some .of the strik-
Ing scenes that were. ENACTED with
startling rapidity theflength Of the
bathing beach. Aside from the
Sovereign avenue rescues there were
seventy-five persons tsaved further up
toward the inlet.
The death OF Green was the only
other fatality along the beach so far
~ In known. Hej was one of six skip
pers, returning from the fishing banks.
who were capized by giant comber.