The New York herald., 1921-12-05
SIX MEN RESCUED
AT SEA IN SEASONS
FIRST SNOWSTORM
Coast Guards Save Fisher
men After Motor Craft
Is Tossed II Hours.
ROCKETS GIVE ALARM
Automobile Kills Bridge
Worker. as Flakes Blind
Chauffeur's View.
STREET CAR HITS A MAN
Cleaners Find Little to Do as
Temperature Rises-Parks
Put on Frosty Garb.
STREET CAR HITS A MAN

Put on Frosty Garb.
One death and innumerable acci-
dents in the city and the surrounding
country and thrilling rescue OF six
fishermen, who were tossed about for
seventeen hours in a disabled open
motorboat five miles Off the Rockaway
| coast, were few Of the FEATURES OF
the first snowstorm Of the season yes
terday. While the city was being put
under five inches Of snow and slush
the fishermen were at the storms
mercy far out OF sight OF coast guard
beach patrolmen, soaked through with
spray and snow water and practically
without food. They were located only
after the coast between Sandy Hook
and Long Beach had been thrown into
excitement by the red glare of the
rockets they sent up for assistance.
1 At Long Beach persons on the porch
Of the rockets meant a ship fire. Tele-
phone messages were sent TO the Ma
rine Division of the Police Depart
ment. to the Coast Guard station at
Tompllinsville and to the Naval Com
munications Service. asking that aid
be despatched at once to the en-
dangered craft
| For four hours Coast Guard cutters
and the police patrol John f. IIylan
cruised about off the coast seeking the
supposed burning vessel The dis
abled fishing boat was all they found
and because Of the draught of the res
cuing craft they were unable to APP
proach her. The power. boat Of Sta
ton No. 80, Rockaway Point. was sent
to the rescue.
Engine stops on Rockaway.
The snow had not begun to fall when
the fishermen set out from Flatlands in
the Eleanore *, commanded by Capt.
Lcmaire. BY the time they were OF
Rockaway Point the storm broke That
was a few minutes after 10 o'clock. The
engine began to miss fire. Finally it
quit altogether.
With the snow came a strong wind.
The sea. however. remained quiet until
late In the afternoon 1t was kicked I'D
then and the men in the broken down
boat had a difficult time keeping her
aioat. Their danger was increased
WREN the storm reached the point where
their sight of shore was cut off So
thickly did the great wet fakes come
down that the sea hundred feet off
was almost invisible.
| About nightfall the force Of the storm
was spent The wind died down n bit
and Capt Lemaire began TO send up
rockets. These were fired az half hour
intervals until 8 o'clock, when the last
Of them delivered it's message to the
Nassau Hotel patrons grouped on the
porch
From then on the rescue was only
matter of an hour. Brady on the beach
at Arverne sent the alarm to Percy Ar
mold. commanding the Hockaway Point
station. He ordered out his crew, in
cluding Robert Carmen, Charles Rider.
Louis Reynor and John Sammers. The
rescuers used powerful motor surf
boat and reached the Eleanore * with
out difficulty
While the storm was long ahead of
the calendar winter which begins on
December p. 1t found the Street Clean
Ing Department ready for it. Early in
the day the Snow Removal Bureau be-
gan preparations to clean up the streets.
but when the fall ceased at dark atten-
ton was concentrated only on the busi-
est OF the thoroughfares. Hosemen
were sent out and before midnight prac-
Z fiCa1lV H.,
nent Of food and merchandise had been
cleared.
Fatal Accident Mt Harlem Bridge.
The death reported to the police was
that of Dominics Medura, GO ye,rs old,
of $40 East 1sSth street a switcliman
employed at Broadway and 225th street
Mt the southerly emo of the bridge across
the Harlem Ship Canal. Medura was
clearing a surface car track switch of
snow and was bent over. with his back
TO vehicles approaching from the north.
An automobile owned by the Ritz-Carl-
ton Automobile Renting Company and
driven by Bernard Allen OF &c Eost
Ninety-fourth street, struck him, knock
ing him down. Medura wss dead when
taken to Columbus Hospital.
Allen. who was detained on tech
nical charge of homicide. said the driv-
ing snow made IL Impossible for him to
see the swtichman. In the automobile
were $. Y. Patino. who Is stopping at
the Ritz-Carlton. and G.. u. Dorsey. who
lives az the Pennsylvania Hotel
Frank McGee. AZ years old. of II st.
Nicholas avenue. was blinded by the
snow as lie crossed Eighth avenue at
/ l1lth street late in the afternoon. and
before he could clear His eyes a surface
car struck him His skull was fractured
and at Harlem Hospital. where he was
taken. II was said his condition was
serious.
According to the forecasters IN tho
Weather Bureau. the storm was dragged
over New York by centre OF low
pressure that came up the coast at
great speed, passing off the coast OF
North Carolina in the morning. Last
night the low pressure centre was near
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