New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-11
Woman, Asleep,
Swept to Her
Death by Tide
Aged Hotel Guest at Coney
Believed to Have Fought
for Hours for Her Life,
Hanging to Anchor Chain
B. II. T. Train Takes Fire
Panic Narrowly Averted at
Island Resort; Brooklyn
Costumer Is Drowned

Mrs. Margaret Hazleton, sixty eight
years old, a, guest at the Seabourn
Hotel, Coney island. died yesterday at
Coney Island Hospital after being res
cued unconscious from the surf early
yesterday morning. Mrs. Hazleton,
is believed to have clung to an anchor
chain off shore for many hours to pre-
vent being washed to sea. Three other
deaths by drowning were reported dur
ing the day. The Sunday crowd num-
bered $4,000.
Persons along shore are reported to
have heard feeble cries for help be-
tween 10 and II o'clock at night, but
answering shouts of boatmen and
guards, trying to fix the locality from
which the cries came, remained un-
answered. A few minutes after l
o'clock Mrs. Hazleton was found strug-
Cling feebly in less than three feet of
water. She was unable to speak when
Smith, of West Thirty fifth Street and
Canal Avenue, Coney Island, and AL
fred Osborne, of 339 Marion Street,
Brooklyn Mrs Hazleton was fully
dressed. Removed to the Coney Island
Hospital she died within an hour.
Believed to Have Fallen Asleep
According to information obtained
by the police, Mrs. Hazleton left the
hotel saying she intended to sit on the
beach because she had been unable to
sleep in her room. She is believed to
have fallen asleep and to have been
overtaken by the tide. Carried beyond
her depth Mrs. Hazleton is thought to
have clung to an anchor chain of one
of the fishing boats anchored off shore
and to have cried for help until eX-
hausted. She was swept ashore by the
returning tide. An investigation was
begun by detectives attached to the
Coney Island station to determine
panied when she left the hotel for the
beach.
Frank Marcello, twentyone years
old. costumer, of 1872 Adams Place
Brooklyn, who had been staying at 1906
Surf Avenue, was drowned at the foot
of West Thirty-ffth Street while div
ing. He is believed to have been seized
with cramps. The body was recovered
by Victor Wolff, guard.
The body of boy clad in a gray
bathing suit, believed to be John
O'Connor, fifteen years old, Of 121 How
ard Avenue, Brooklyn, was recovered at
Manhattan Beach yesterday afternoon
The boy was drowned last Thursday
with his brother, Emmett Desmond
O'Connor, twelve years old. Emmet's
| body was recovered at the time of the
drowning.
Cars Burn at Coney
| Intense excitement among more than
~,
| beach and in the crowded West Eighth
| Street B. r. T. elevated station at
Coney Island followed the burning OF
! two cars on an express train which
reached the beach at $3.50 o'clock yes
terday afternoon. The train carried
four hundred passengers, many of them
women. A panic was narrowly averted
| when the forward car took fire from 9
| short-circuited wiring as it approached
the West Eighth Street. terminus
Flames shot up on both sides of the
swiftly moving forward cars, and 9
| rush of passengers in the forward
| coaches for those beyond the danger
| zone overcame the guards. Fortu-
nately. the train reached the station
| and discharged it's human cargo before
| the fire had gained headway.
! Michael Callahan, motorman in charge
shouted to the frightened passengers
| that they were In no Danger. AS SooL
as the train stopped he cut off the for.
ward cars and backed those in the rea,
away The leading car was entirely corr
sumed. There were no passenger cas-.
ualties.
Owing to the rush of curiosity seek
ers Coney Island police reserves, under
| Sergeant James Reade, turned out te
!, handle the crowd. Captain Roberts
with two companies of the Coney ISL
and fire department extinguished the
| blaze.
Ready to Rescue Passengers
| When it appeared that panic might
result among 400 passengers on the
60-foot upper level, fire ladders Were
raised to the platform rails and crews
! stood ready to remove any who might
| be cut off by the flames. The Brighton
| Beach line was obstructed for three
/ and half hours.
/ Charles Tully, mounted patrolman
| was crushed and slightly hurt wher
/ caught between an automobile driver
| by Charles Deneke, of l50 West Thir.
| teenth Street. Manhattap, and a trolley
car. Deneke was placsa under arrest
Icharged with reckless diving.