New-York tribune., 1921-08-08
Boil Piles Four Golfers i'm
Heap, Leaving Caddy
Dead; Beach Camper a
Victim: Clubhouse Afre
Yacht Saves 4 on
Wrecked Seaplane
Tropic Storm Causes anic
at Beaches and Heavy
Loss in City and Jersey

4 freakish thunder shower swept
over the city late yesterday afternoon.
Ten persons were struck by lightning,
two being killed outright. subway
trains in the open were halted in the
shelter Of stations because of the
wind The Metropolitan Yacht Club
At City Island was set afre. young
woman WAS drowned when \ canoe
was capszed.
young woman who was drowned in
Grsvesend Bay during the day owed
her death to an attempt to change
seats in a rowboat and not to the
storm
The sudden squall forced down a
seaplane near Sandy Hook and speedily
battered it to pieces in the waves. It's
pilot and three passengers were res
cued
The sesplane was the Ambassador
owned and operated by the Aero Marine
Company. II was the yacht Lounger II,
owned by lnglis Uppercu, president Of
the company which first sighted the
founderng wreck of the seaplane and
sped to the rescue.
Planes Wings Lift Raft
The comparatively fragile wings Of
the machine, buckling and straining
under the weight of the waves that
dashed over them, formed the perilous
life raft TO which the pilot and his
three passengers clung. When the
yacht hove to as close as safety per
mitted, it seemed as if the chances
were about even whether its tender or
an overwhelming wave reached the
plane first
The oarsmen from the yacht won the
race. however, and, relieved of their
human burden, the wings rode the
waves more buoyantly. A line was
made fast to them and the Lounrer II
started for Atlantic Highlands, towing
the remnant of the seapiane
Arthur Caperton, pilot of the plane,
said that the storm hit his craft Just
as ne was over the Horse Shoe, of
Atlantic Highlands. The seaplane was
threatened with destruction, he said.
and he decided to give up the trip to
New York and try to make the High
lands.
Couldn't Turn in Air
1t was out Of the question to turn
the scaplane in the air and try to buck
the otfShore wind, and Caperton de-
scended in the effort to make the COM
paratively short run to shelter across
the surface of the bay before the squall
mad piled up any considerable waves.
lhe sea was much rougher than ap-
pesred from his vantage point. high
a9oVe 1t, however, and when the sea
plane struck roller tore several pl4nks
rom the bottom of its boat
beaches and parks were the special
targets OF the storm. City Island.
.oney island, Van Cortlandt Park and
other resorts were seized with panic
wnen sudden darkness set in accon,-
PANIED by wind which tweaked the
branches from trees and LIGHTNING
which was followed instantly by crack
ing detonations.
FIVE Of those struck by lightning
we're standing beneath tree on the
Toi T inks at Weequahic Park, Newark.
lnsee others were on the float of the
Island ICY
Lightning Victims
The lightning victims were:
,oa a''nur Schantz, fifteen years old. Of
s0y Chadwick Avenue. Newark,
eaoay; killed at Weequahic Park.
Seil Shehan, 306 West 18th Street
@',ied at hcansburg, n. j.
frederick Leonard, IT'S BERGEN
11ise'' Newark, struck at Weeouahic
r' @Lh' taken TO St. Barnabas Hospital
Ns"ark; condition serious.
oeoTge Kreibler 231 Halstead Street.
s-ss, orange, =. j., struck at Weeoua
..i I fafH; taHen 10 Newark City Hospi
al, condition serious.
Aichael heaney. Bellcville, \. r.
8. .ioek at Weequahic Park; taken To-
o.; ,bsFnabas Hospital.
ihomas S. Walters. 1s8 Hillside
PTtHue, Psvt. Aewark; struck a Weequahic
cdr, under physicians care at home
1sorge Geller, 1897 Clay Avenuc
.4s oronx: fireman attached 70 E,n-
sne Company 9; struck at Metropolj-
Hospital. - roiohain
u..ris aorris Geller, his brother. STRUCK At
Tosstt3IpoNs@n Tacht Club; taken to
'oiaaam Hospital
st,a stni'apr Waterman. 325 East TWENTY
S'fees; struck at Metropolitan
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