The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-06-13
Marine Police Graphing in Bay
for Victims Predict That
More Than Score Still
Will Be Found.
tsy The AssoeIated Pressl

NEW YORK, June 12.-Morgues and
undertaking shops of the metropolitan
area tonight held the bodies of more than
three-score men, women and children
victims of yesterdays brief cyelonic thun-
derstorm.
Marine police. who continued through
out the day, their work of graphing in
Pelham Bay and Long Island Sound off
city Island, where the greatest toll was
taken among Sunday canoeists and fish
ermen, predicted they would find at least
a score more victims-enough to push
the death toll past eighty. Eye witnesses
of the swift tragedy placed the number
even higher.
At least ESQ canoes. row boats and
small motor boats were bobbing about
off the island. witnesses said when the
storm came screaming down on the resort
at a. velocity of eighty miles an hour, or
better. Occupants of the little craft. see
ing their danger, made run for shelter.
But scarcely had they got under way
wwhen they were engulfed in binding
storm of rain and hail.
AS quickly as it had come, the storm
vanished. 1t lasted less than five min
utes But scarcely dozen of the ESQ
small craft had survived. Horror strick-
en-. but helpless to aid, the crowds on
the beach and about the Casino Pier saw
scores of men and women clinging to
wrecked and overturned craft in the
choppy sound and bay. One by one they
gave up the struggle and dropped quietly
off to be carried out toward the open sea
by the tide.
Some of the bodies. the police say.
probably never viii be recovered. The
tide, turning, brought more than a score
of them back today. Eye witnesses es-
timated there were between 900 and ZOO
persons in the wrecked craft Heroic
work by the United States life guards
members of nearby yacht clubs and
volunteers from the shore crowd saved
hundreds.
Among the first to put out were Jack
Murray, J. C. Bower, Jack Malloy and
Frank warttinger. Manning two small
motor boats, they saved more than a
dozen men and women wwhom they
found clinging to overturned canoes and
row boats They were followed by other1I
and soon more than fifty craft of all
sorts were out, dragging to safety the
survivors of the disaster. PA score or
more saved themselves by clinging to
the sides Of Cornelius Vanderbilts yacht
on w,xschowo.- tekshr shr shrd hrd
The waters had been cleared by night
fall Of all the living, but the search for
the dead continued through the night
Guided by the searchlight of the police
boat, John F. Hylan, score of boats
eruised about, graphing for, and oecas-
ionally finding bodies.
Meantime, chaos relgned on shore,
where darkness descended unbroken by
the usual glare OF electric lights. The
island power plant had been out Of COM
mission by the storm as had the tele-
phone and telegraph lines.
Mothers and fathers and wives of the
missing besieged the police station,
where a temporary morgue had been set
up-gazing fearfuily at the faces OF the
dead by the lickering light of candles
and lanterns. Others crowded the wreck
strewn beach. waiting for the rescue |
boats to come in with more bodies.
Fresh crowds hurried to the island to-
day. where they had first news Of the |
tragedy through the morning newspa-
pers. Police directed them to the Bronx
morgue, where the "a bodies so far re- J
covered had been removed