The New York herald., 1922-06-12
FORTY TO so SAVED
IN SOUND AND RIVER
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walking along the edge of the reservoir
at Ossining when the storm came. She
I started to run to shelter. but slipped
and fell into the reservoir. She was
drowned before help could come
( Jacob Dizer OF 317 West 124th street
/ was drowned in Long Island Sound off
] City Island when a tow boat in which
he had gone out with Jacob Birmer of
1 949 Washington avenue. The Bronx,
was overturned by the storm. Birmer
was rescued by launch which was
passing. but Dizer sank before he could
be saved.
Another drowning due to tie storm
was that !. of Jack Lowenthaal of 56
East 103d street. He was swimming
with several other men in the East
River off Ninetieth street when the
| storm broke. He dived from a raft
and came up just as the heavy wind
came down the river. 1t bobbed the
raft about, and the edge OF 1t struck
Lowelthaal on the head. He was
knocked unconscious and sank before
his companions could reach him.
| Fred Heyder. 25. steamfitter. Of
i715 Seventy eighth street. Brooklyn.
was drowned in Gravesend Bay when
| in bathing off Seventeenth avenue. Bath
! Beach. and friend. Fred Belts. SO. an
electrician. of 1710 Seventy-seventh
street. Brooklyn, nearly lost his life in
attempting TO rescue him. He was saved
by Carl Nagler. 10. a roofer OF 80 Bay
Thirteenth street. Brooklyn.
Heyder and Belts. who were COM
panions. were diving from jetty about
seventy-five feet from shore, and Hey
der. seized with cramps. became dis
abled In the water. Belts swan to his
assistance. but broke away from him
as Heyder was about to drag him under
the surface. He started to swim to the
shore and was nearing exhaustion when
Nagler went to his rescue. When he
had taken Belts ashore Nagler swan to
the place where Heyder had gone down
and dived from the jetty to a depth
of twelve feet. recovering the body.
Belts was taken to the Coney Island
Hospital.
I Police launches and other motorboats
cruising In the rivers and the Sound
made a number of rescues during the
storm and Immediately afterward. Sergt.
Michael McDerlnott passing up the
! Sound in a launch, blew his siren when
! he saw n motorboat overturn. 1t car
! ried three men and woman. He at
| tracted the attention of the crew of the
| ferryboat Harlem. which stopped. and
rescued the persons in the water They
gave their names as Samuel Kaplan Of
81 West 10th street. James and Irene
Newman of II West Eighty-fifth street
and Solomon Levy Of 1911 ST. Nicholas
| avenue.
Three men who were thrown into the
water when their boat collapsed Off City
Island, near the Execution lighthouse,
| were picked up by a motorboat and
brought TO shore. where they were sent
to Fordham Hospital, suffering from
submersion. They are Santo Callentano
Of 474 Henry street. Jerry Selario Of SO
Second avenue and James Massa OF 172
President street.
Sergeant Flanagan Of the Greenwich
police telephoned to New York Police
Headquarters last night that Gladys
Redinger, aged "a, of SO2 East 116th
street. was in a hospital In that city
unconscious from shock and submersion.
There is no such address as the one
given. but the police believe the address
became twisted in transmission.
Girl From Canoe Rescued.
The Greenwich police said that the
| girl was rescued from Long Island
| Sound during the storm. She was riding
in canoe with John Anderson of Abs
Digney street. The Bronx. The canoe
had capsized and she and Anderson were
| owned by John 3. Dunbaugh OF Mount
Vernon, came to their rescue. Miss
Redinger was pulled aboard the yacht
but Anderson sank and his body was
not recovered.
Five persons in an open 30-foot motor
boat were rescued from drowning in the
upper bay. between the Statue of Lib
erty and Robbins Reef. after the boat
had filled and was about to sink
In the boat were Fred Burques, his
wife, Jane; his daughter, Amanda, and
Joseph Martin. all of 1888 Third ave-
nue.. and Jennie Lenthrey of ass West
Twenty-third street. They left 21Sth
street and Hudson River in Burques's
boat, which he calls the Highball. and
all went well until they got in the bay
| when the strong northwest wind began to
drive waves over the side of the boat The
| engine stopped, and the boat was about
| to sink when Capt. Arthur Hincklcy of
the ferryboat Brooklyn saw them and
ordered lifeboats let down. All five
were taken on the ferry and 70
| Staten Island. They were wet but un-
injured. A passing launch towed the
crippled Highball to the foot Of West
Thirty-ninth street, Brooklyn.
Carl Suncello of 9S Sixteenth street
| Brooklyn was swept from the deck of
Eagle Boat 50 of the Second Naval Bat
talon when the boat, commanded by
Lieut.. Seselberg, went to the assistance
of a canoe that was In distress off Fort
| Washington Point. The occupants OF
the canoe were saved Suncello's body.
according to a report made to the police
of the marine division at the Battery.
was not recovered.
There were also four drownings yes
terday morning and last night which
were not due to the storm. Joseph p.
Hayes. IS. OF 304 West F'orty-nrst
street. was drowned at noon in Clovena
Lake. West New Brighton. Staten Island.
He was swimming in the middle of the
lake when he had an attack OF cramps.
Three boys were drowned last night
while bathing in the Passafc River, one
near West Paterson and the two others
near Singac, ". j. They were Ernest
Schmidt OF 214 Hamburg avenue. Pater-
son. and Samuel Israel Bralek of Is
Rose place and David Ginsberg of sc
Sunset avenue. both of Passaic.