New-York tribune., 1920-07-26
Three Drown at
Coney Island ,
3 at Rockaway
Boy, Ia, Loses Life When
Launch Collides With
Rowboat; Brother Carried
10 Shore by Companion
Heavy Seas Seize Bathers
Exhausted Swimmers Are
Rescued by Guards: Two
Girls Saved From Dcatl,

Three persons we're drowned yester-
day at Coney Island and three at Rock
away Beach. The undertow was not so
strong as it had been for several
weeks along the Long Island shore. but
heavy seas were rolling in and are
thought to have caused most of the
casualties.
Carroll Martins, fourteen years old.
OF 424 East 138th Street, the Bronx.
lost his life at Coney Island in colli
sion between power launch and a row.
noat. Ihe boy was in the rowboat with
ms orother Percy, nine years old, and
their cousins, George and Henry Logan.
OF o3l Flftieth Street. Brooklyn, who
have tent at Gravesend Bay near
Coney Island Greek.
lhey were rowing in Gravesend Bav
when their boat was upset by lhe
launch Aquono, belonging to Edward
Spott, of Richmond Hill, Queens. who
was at the wheel, with Louis Gerkjns.
of Eltingvillc Beach, S. l., as engineer.
Henry Logan seized Percy Martins and
swan with him to the launch while
George Logan made for the spot where
CarroR was foundering.
Before the elder boy could reach
i''ih alio4i WAS draWn under by the
propeller of the launch, which had
collision. 1t took three quarters of an
hour to extrcate his body.
Abraham Lichzer, of 33l Pennsyl-
vania Avenue, Brooklyn. who was
spending the summer at the Atlantic
Hotel on Ocean Parkway, was drowned
while bathing at the Parkway Baths.
Coney Island. He was a ieweler,
twenty-five years old, his place of
business being II Maiden Lane. joseph
CHAIR, life guard, brought his body
ashore. but attempts to revive him
were useless.
Unidentified Man Loses Life
The other bather drowned at Coney
Island has not been identified. James
B. Harrison, Of 1925 Putnam Avenue,
Brooklyn. who was swimming off West
Twenty fifth Street, discovered his
body. 1t was clad in brown bathing
suit and was that of a man about
twenty years old. five feet nine inches
The hair was brown and the eyes
light gray.
Charles Coombs, whose home is said
to be in East Thirty fifth Street, Man
haitian, was drowned while swimming
at Rockaway Beach off Beach 107th
Street. His body was not found. The
other victims at that resort were
Thomas Peterson, of 2412 Pitkin Ave
nue., Brooklyn, and Leroy Sims. of 946
Blake Avenue, Brooklyn, negroes, who
were swimming off 1O6th Street. Their
bodies were recovered
Bathers at Gravesend Bay feared an
other tragedy when raft on which
Nellie Woods. of West Thirty fifth
Street. Coney Island, and Frank
Murphy, of 3l2 Fifteenth Street, Brook
lyn, were riding tilted them off into
deep water near where the launch and
rowboat had been in collision.
Murphy swan to his companion and
tried to tow her ashore, but became ex-
hausted. and was on the point of sink
ing when two men vino were swimming
in the vicinity came to the rescue and
brought both to shore The rescuers
departed without telling who they
were. Murphy and Miss Woods were
cal attention.
Life Guards Save Two
Frank Lccardi, life guard, rescued
David Price, of West Twenty third
Street, Coney Island, who became ex-
hausted while swimming at the foot of
West Twenty Street. He also
was able to go nome, as was Lillian
Marks, of III West Ninety Street,
whom a life guard rescued from 3
similar predcament at the Parkway
Baths.
The body of William Morris, of 1893
Broadway, Brooklyn, who was drowned
Saturday at Rockaway Beach, was re-
covered yesterday in Sheepshead Bay.
The body of Harold Bolsen, Of rs Rem
sen Street, Brooklyn, boatman, was
found in the East River off Wall
Street.
Henry Bachner, twenty-nine, of go
East Fourth Street, Manhattan, was
bathing off Manhattan Beach yesterday.
He came out of the water and sat in a
rocker. He complained of pains around
his heart and was dead when Dr.. Vein
stock, of the Coney Island Hospital,
arrived.