The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-13
Bathers Attacked in Arm of
Raritan Bay Near Mat
avian, New Jersey
FISHER MADE HEROIC
EFFORT TO RESCUE
Swan to Lad Who Had Been Wounded
by Sea Monster, But Both Were Terri
bly, Bitten and Sank Near Shore -
Third Victim S Leg Severed.

MATAWAN, n. j., July 13.-Lister
Stillwen, II years old, was killed BIZ,
a nan-eating shark while bathing in
an arm of Raritan bay near here YES
terday afternoon. Stanley Fisher, a.
who went to his aid, was so badly in
Jured i'll a desperate struggle with the
nlne-fOOt sea monster that he died
while being taken to a Long Branch
hospital. Joseph Dunn, II years old,
bathing some distance away in the
same inlet, was attacked By a shark
and one of his legs was SO lacerated
1t probably will have to be amputated.
This is the third time within two
weeks that sharks have claimed the
lives of bathers along the New ,Jer-
sey coast. Charles +. Van Slant, a
| youth OF Philadelphia, was killed by
one off Beach Haven, \. j., on the ID.
Charles Bruder of Spring Lake, n
j., was attacked and both his legs
taken off by shark on the 9th. lie
! died while men who went to his rescue
were carrying him ashore.
The summer population along the
New Jersey coast has become terror
stricken, and few persons now are
venturing in the water at beach re
sorts which have not been protected
i by steel nets. Motorboat patrols car
rying armed men have been cstab-
lished at various points to hunt the
man-eaters.
y dozeH or more boys, who also
were bathing in the inlet, saw young
Stillwel suddenly raise his hands
above the water and heard his scream
hfIr 4
pcared from view. Fisher, powerfully
built and weighing 300 pounds, VIII,
was standing on the bank of the in
let, lcaped into the water to the res
cue. lie had gone only a few feet
f when the shark attacked him, tearing
a piece out of one thigh.
In spite of his wound Fisher battlet
with the shark and kept on until h,
reached young Stillwcll. lie caugh
the boy up in his arms and had started
for shore when the shark renewed til,
: attack. Burdened as he was. Fishe
: was helpless and the shark snappe,
e of his leg. Fisher released his hol,
l. on Stillwcll and himself sank beneath
r the surface unconscious. Needless o
h the danger, another boy sprang lat
= the inlet and dragged Fisher out. y
4 trace Of young Stillwen was foun,
and it is believed he was devoured b.
7 the shark.
= The Dunn boy, according to person
who were standing OH the bank of til
inlet, also was attacked soon after &c
ing into the water. An elder brothe
and another boy went to his rescue
They succeeded in driving off tn
shark, but not until after the younge
Dunn 5 leg had been torn almost t
shreds from the knee down. DR.. /
= $. Cooley, who attended the Dunn boy
n said he probably would recover unleS
blood poisoning developed. lie wa
i, removed to a hospital in New Bruno
= wick, y. J.
Hundreds of persons noelled to tn
Il bank of the inlet soon after tn
tragedy. The inlet is about 80 fec
o wide, about 10 or y feet deep, an
= extends for a distance of several mile
from Raritan bay. Several person
: along Raritan bay said last night the
had seea the fins of a shark durin
the afternoon, and they agreed that
was about nine' feet long.
Efforts were made last night to be-
. the egress of the sharks to sea b
y stretching wire netting across IL
q. inlet where it empties into the ba
and it is probable that dynamite wi
III be used to bring them to the surfat
D. Hundreds of armed men in 70
boats and launches were hunting t
h' day for the shark. 1t was reportt
this morning that another nan name