New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-16
Six DrOwnings
Is Days Total;
Diver Killed
Two Coney Island Bathers
Meet Death and Another
Loses Life When Head
Strikes Submerged Plank
Two Girls Are Victims
Unidentified Man Rescues
Youths as Boat Upsets.;
One Body Is Recovered

six drownings were reported in the
Greater New York district yesterday.
Ore bather was killed when his head
struck submerged plank and the body
~ man missing since Friday was
recovered. Many persons were rescued
ron, death in the water.
Two were drowned at Coney Island.
uhere diver also lost his life. Three
bsthers were rescued from the surf
The drowning victims were Moses
pimlarsky. eighteen, of $40 Madison
Street. and James Marcantonio, twenty,
{; IS Catherine Street, Manhattan.
pimlansky was drowned after diving
from a jetty at the foot of West
rwenty-third Street The body was
,.covered. Marcantonio was drowned
willie bathing at the foot of Stauch's
Walk and his body also was recovered
arthur Orr. thirty-eight, of 400
rstbush Avenue. Brooklyn. while bath
irg in Sheepshead Bay at o'clock yes
terday morning, Owed from the pier
in front OF the Nellie BY house, 5000
merged plank A spike in the plank
severed Orr's jugular vein. killing him.
The body was taken to the Brooklyn
morgue.
browns in East River
Title Bogbansky. thirteen. of 21S
East Twentv-eighth Street, Manhattan,
was drowned while bathing in the
East River at the foot of Woolsey
Street, Astoria. The body was not
recovered
Otto Schonert, three, Of los
Irving Avenue. became exhausted while
- 80, 20
foot Of Eighth Avenue. Brooklyn, yes
terday afternoon and was towed to
shore b. bathers. He was taken to
the Flushing Hospital.
Paul Engle, twenty-four, chauf-
ieur, of 152 Jamaica Avenue, Long
Island City, was drowned while bath
ing in front o. the Troutville Club,
Long Beach. The body was not re-
covered
Marie Walker. fifteen, of 17s Mag
lola Avenue. Elizabeth, n j., was
drowned at the foot Of Crescent Street
in Great Kills, Staten Island, yester-
day afternoon. The body was brought
ashore and ambulance doctors from the
Staten Island Hospital tried to revive
her
Wallace Siegler, twenty-five, a boat
dispatcher for the Long Island Rail
road. was drowned at the foot of Sixty
ff-h Street. Brooklyn, early yesterday
morning Siegler missed his footing
IN stepping from a float. The body
was not recovered.
Two Boys Rescued
sr unidentified man rescued two
fs 4 Gravesend Bay, at the foot Of
Tnir-y-second Street, yesterday
asrron. William Perisco, fourteen,
West Thirty-third Street, got
l7 sep water and was crying for
f on John Sullivan, fourteen, of
a-~ ghth Avenue, Manhattan, tried
Is him with q row boat. The
ts -aset and both were floundering
the unidentified man jumped in
ere owed them 70 shore
'rence sullivan. twenty, a school
tscNer, Of 24s Thirteenth Street.
frooklyn. while bathing at the foot Of
"esr Thirty-hfth Street, Coney Island,
as struck by a canoe She was car
red ashore and treated at the Coney
Island Hospital
TIE body OF Irving Horowitz, twenty
one, Of so West Twentieth Street.
Bayonne. N J., was found in Newark
bay, OF Bayonne, yesterday, by Walter
Johnson. OF IS Trask Avenue, Bayonne.
Horowitz had been missing since Fri
day. Il IS believed he was seized with
cramp while bathing.