The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-07-13
SHARK OFF JERSEY
COAST Cl AIMS z
MORE VICTIMS
Biz Fish Kills Boy Bather and Man
Who Attempted Rescue
ANOTHER LAD LOSES ONE leg
Tragedy Took Place in Matawan Creek
A Long Distance From the
Open Sea.

Matawan, n. j., July 12.-Lister Still
well, II years old was killed by man
eating shark while bathing in an arm
of Raritan bay near here yesterday af-
teInoon. Stanley Fisher, "a, who went
to his aid, was so badly injured in
desperate struggle with the nine foot
sea monster that he died While being
taken to a Long Branch hospital. Jo-
seph Dunn, II years old bathing scme
distance away in the same met, was
attacked by shark and one OF his
legs was so lacerated it 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 Il. Van Slant, a
youth of Philadelphia, was killed by
one off Beach Haven, N. j., on the I'd.
Charles Bruder of Spring Lake, N
j., was attacked and both his legs
taken off by a 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
by stell nets. Motorboat patrols car
rying armed men have been establish
ed at various points to hunt the man
eaters.
A dozen or more boys, who also
| were bathing in the inlet, saw young
Stillwell suddenly raise his hands
above the water and heard his scream
| for help. A moment later he disap-
| peared from view. Fisher, powerfully
| built and weighing 300 pounds, who
was standing on the bank of the inlet,
leaped into the water to the rescue.
lie had gone only few feet when the
shark attacked him, tearing a piece
out OF one thigh.
In spite of his wound Fisher battled
| with the shark and kept on until he
reached young Sullwell. He caught
| the boy up in his arms and had started
| lor shore when the shark renewed the
attack. Burdened as he was, Fisher
was helpless and the shark snapped
off his leg. Fisher released his hold
on Stillwell and himself sank beneath
the surface unconscious. Needless OF
the danger an other boy sprang into
the inlet and dragged Fisher out. No
trace of young Stillwell was found and
II is believed he was devoured by the
shark.
The Dunn boy, according to persons
who we're standing on the bank OF the
inlet, also was attacked soon after go
ing into the water. An elder brother
and another boy went to his rescue.
They succeeded in driving Off the
shark. but not until after the younger
Dunn's leg had ben torn almost to
shreds from the knee down. DR.. ii.
> $. Cooley, who attended the Dunn boy,
said he probably would recover unless
blood poisoning developed, He was
removed to hospital in New Bruins
wick, n. j.
Hundreds of persons focked to the
bank of the inlet soon after the
tragedy. The inlet is about 80 feet
wide, about 10 or IL feet deep, and
extends for distance Of several miles
= from Raritan bay. Several persons
along Raritan bay said last night they
had seen the fins OF a shark during the
afternoon and they agreed that 1t was
. | about nine feet long.
Efforts were made last night to bal
the egress OF the sharks to sea b,
stretching wire netting across thu
inlet where it empties into che bay ant
it is probable that dynamite will b'
used to bring them to the surface.