New-York tribune., 1922-07-04
Nine Drowned
In or NearCity;
Tenth Missing. G.
Y:cht Club Crowd Watches
Boy Go Down, Thinking
Friend Is Joking When
He Screams for Help
Brothers Lost i'm Greek
Swimmer Starts for Shore
as 5 Upset in Sheepshead
Bay Boat and Disappears

Nine were drowned in and about
New York City yesterday. and tenth
is believed to have lost his life in
Sheepshead Bay. Spectacular but futile
attempts at rescue were made in three
instances.
Joseph Gimbel. sixteen years old
Of 258 West Sixtv-fifth Street, was
drowned in the Hudson River. off
Nineteth Street in full view of hoi-
day gathering on the Columbia Yacht
Club dock.
Gimbel was seized with cramps and
his companion. Joseph Suncher, also
sixteen, Of the same addres, fought
desperately to save him. Suncher's
shouts for aid and his frequent dives
after Gimbel were regarded by the
club members and their guests as
mere frolcking by the two lads. who
had been swimming and diving in the
vicinity Of the club float for nearly
an hour.
Suncher. compelled to abandon his
effort to save Gmbel, reached the club
dock in an exhausted condition.. II
was then realized for the first time
that what the club members believed
& comedy had been a tragedy. Suncher
was taken aboard a motor boat by
yachtsmen. He became unconscious
and was revived with difficulty. The
body Of Gimbcl has not been recovered
Angler Missing
One man Of party Of five anglers
thrown into Sheepshead Bay last night
when the forty foot motorboat Skiff
capsized, 8 missing. He is Augustus
Drunken, twentyfour years old, of 520
Jamaica Avenue Brooklyn. Drunken
tried to swim ashore for aid after the
boat upset off Rockaway Point. He
was a strong swimmer, but is believed
to have become exhausted before reach
ing shore a mile from the scene of
the accident.
Others in the overturned craft were
William Correll, of 307 East Sixty-first
Street; his son, Joseph Correll, twenty
Bahse, of 346 Fast Forty seventh
Street, and Frank Bade, of 535 Arcadia
Street, Astoria, l.. |.
AS the SkiH was rounding Rocka-
way Point she was taken broadside by
sudden wind slant and upset. The
boat faoted bottom up, her company
clinging to side lines. Drunken, who
was the best swimmer of the party
volunteered to swim ashore for aid.
Fifteen minutes after he forsook the
capsized craft the steam trawler Billy
Boy, Captain William Benton, rounded
Rockaway Point and hove to. She
lowered a boat and rescued the four
men. The Billy Boz cruised in search
of Drunken but found no trace of
him.
While resting on raft twenty feet
off shore at the foot of West 112th
Street North River, late yesterday
afternoon Edward Hakalahte, sixteen
years old, of 541 West Fortyninth
Street, was thrown into the water By
the wash from passing vessel and
drowned. Patrolman Belger. of the
West Tooth Street station, who dived
after the boy, succeeded finally in
bringing up the lifeless body.
Brothers Drown in Creek
James and Michael Licarte, brothers,
fourteen and fifteen years old. were
drowned late yesterday afternoon in
Corlear Creek, at 234th Street and
Spuyten Duyvil Road. The lads were
wading when one slipped into the
water and the other in an attempt to
aid him was dragged down. They lived
at 80 First Street
resident whose address was not learned,
was drowned off the Jamaica Bay Yacht
Club yesterday afternoon. Trying to
enter rodboat he slipped, striking his
head on the gunwale. He fell in the
bay and drowned before aid arrived.
Daniel Ford thirtyfour, of 234
North Cliff Street, Newark, N. j.,
drowned while bathing at Beach 1O3d
Street, Rockaway Beach. He was car
ried out of his depth by undertow.
Armand Matthew. forty, a member
of the order of Community Fathers of
the Church Of the Blessed Sacrament
ixtl>
and Lexington Avenue. drowned while
bathing at Seabright. His body was
recovered.
The first Catskill drownings of the
season were also reported. Samuel
Cohen, of 339 Saratoga Avenue, Brook
lyn, and Henry Grossman, of 251 Lin
den Avenue, both of Brooklyn; were
drowned in Cauterskill Creek. Neither
could swim. Both bodies were recov-
cred.