Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-07-13
Man Killed Week Ago at
Beach Haven, Another at
i Spring Lake July 6
BOY HORRIBLY MANCLED
TWO KILLED YESTERDAY
". Stanley Fisher Receivers
Body Of Sillweu But Is
Himself Killed

New York, July 13.-Even New
York got the shark panic today. At
Coney Island, Brighton, Rockaway and
other seashore points acknowledge that
the man-eater had added two victims
TO his list of killed and had MANNED
another for life resulted in institution
of special motor boat patrols, steel
nets-with very few bathers. In New
York city itself the news kept many
bathing parties from piers in the low
er city.
There was considerable doubt ex-
pressed at st. Peters hospital, New
Brunswick, N. j., today that Joseph
Dunn, aged 12, whose leg was horribly
stripped Of flesh from a shark bite.
would recover.
Physicians said the wound was
bad one. Great pieces of flesh were
torn from the bones and although the
youth bore the snock well, the wound
is of the sort that becomes infected
easily. rs
Hundreds OF men armed with rifles.
pistols, dynamite and all sorts Of har-
poons hunted ceaselessly along the Jer.
sey shore today for the shark. Mata-
wan creek was almost dynamited out
Of its course. 1t is now feared Lester
Stillwell's body may have been eaten
and that the shark came back to
feast on human flesh after the attack
since another Of taose attacked by the
shark was bitten as he was ondeavor-
ing to bring the body to shore.
State. aid in seeking the shark will
be asked of Governor Fielder today.
Dread of further attacks is playing
havoc with the business of bath house
proprietors in all beaches nearby. The
bathers apparently reason that il
shark swims up into the sluggish wat
ers of Matawan creek-not more than
10 feet deep-he will go anywhere.
The fishermen experts in and around
New York think there is only one man
killer shark-but assuming their hy-
pOthesis to be correct the big fish has
shown an amazing faculty for travel
and bOldness which does not match
of sharks in general. A little over a
week ago Charles +. Van SAINT of Phil
adelphia was attacked at Beach Hav-
en-, N. j., and killed. Five days later
on July 9, Charles Bruder at Spring
Lake, N. j., suceumbed to terrible in
juries inflicted by a man eater. Yester-
day Lester Stillwell, aged 12, and five
other boy playmates, went swimming
in Matawan creek. Stillwell was seiz-
ed after one of the other swimmers
had felt the bruise of the impact of a
big fish against his leg, as he was
drawing out of the water at Wyckoff's
dock. He yelled warning, but Still
well was too far away and before he
could reach the dock, he was dragged
under.
When Stillwell's companions spread
the alarm in Matawan, w. Stanly Fish
err aged 25, and accustomed to the
sea, was among those who volunteered
to aid in searching for the boys body.
Disregarding all warning, he dove re-
peatedly in the spot where the shark
seized Stillwell. Finally he found tae
mangled body and was bringing il to
shore when he felt the shark turning
under him. He fought Justify with
legs and feet, screaming for help, but
holding tight to Stillwel IS body. When
he was finally dragged into a boat, it
was seen his right leg had been literal
ly torn into strips from the SHARKS
teeth. Fisher died before he could be
taken to hospital.