The New York herald., 1922-06-12
so TO 80 RESCUED
Four Missing at City
Island, With Number
Likely to Be In
creased To-day.
THREE CHILDREN LOST
Bronx Man browns When
Canoeing in Sound at
Greenwich, Conn.
GIRL COMPANION SAVED
Alarm Felt for Many Persons
in Boats Upset by Blow
on Sound.
GIRL COMPANION SAVED

The majority of the drownings re-
ported to the police as due to the
storm and the kigh wind which cap
sized boats and canoes occurred in
Long Island Sound off City Island.
Nine bodies had been recovered there
up to early this morning. and police
men of the Marine Division are still
out in launches graphing for others.
Four men have been reported to the
police as missing by relatives, who
said they went to City Island to go
boating, and it is believed that this
number will be increased, as many Of
the persons who were at the island
lived In other sections of the city, and
their disappearance will not be re-
ported for many hours after the time
they should have returned home.
Some of the policemen working off
the island estimated last night that
when the report is complete it will
be found that between twenty and
forty persons died in the Sound during
the storm. The work Of rescue was
handicapped last night by tie fact
that all the lights on the island and in
The Bronx down to Pelham Parkway
were out, the wires having been torn
down by the high wind.
The John F. Hylan shortly before mid
night began throwing her searchlight
along the Chimney Sweep. as that por-
tion Of Long Island Sound and Pelham
Bay between Rodman's Neck and City
Island proper is known to marine men.
It was reported by some observers on
that portion of the Sound that the ma
jority Of the small boats in that vicinity
when the storm broke overturned and
their occupants were drowned.
1t was estimated by the police that
over 200 small boats were overturned.
and 1t was also reported that whole
boatloads of persons went down in the
height Of the storm at City Island.
Searching parties worked all night
along the shores of City Island and
Pelham Bay Park in an effort to locate
bodies that may have been washed
ashore.
Many searchers with imrrovised
torches passed from point to point along
the water front In hunting victims.
From all parts of the waters sur
rounding the metropolitan district came
reports Of boats overturned and
swamped. and of men and women and
children thrown into the seas and the
Hudson and East rivers and battling in
vain against the heavy seas churned up
by the high winds and the beating hail
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coast made many heroic rescues. ventur-
ing out into seas that were so high it
was almost impossible for them to make
headway.
Victims mt City Island.
Police launches and ferryboats and
privately owned motor boats contributed
to the rescues. and II is estimated that
between sixty and eighty persons were
saved from death. There is no way of
knowing the exact number just as there
Is no way OF determining precisely how
many died. as reports of missing persons
and persons drowned were still coming
in at daybreak this morning
The bodies recovered off City Island
include those of Mary Petzold of 2416
Lyverre avenue. The Bronx. and Agnes
Kohler. years old, of 236 West 11sth
street. Brooklyn: two unidentified girls
about 3 years old and three unidentified
women picked up Off Chimney Sweep.
Mrs. Petzold and the little Kohler
girl were in a boat with six others,
when the craft was capsized. The others
were saved by passing boats. but Agnes
and Mrs. Petzold drowned. Miss Kap-
Ian was canoeing with Miss Lillian
Feinberg of s65 Intervale avenue. The
Bronx. The canoe capsized. Passing
motorboats picked up the Feinberg girl.
but Miss Kaplan sank and did not come
to the surface again.
A canoe containing four persons was
overturned In Long Island Sound Off
New Rochelle and Moe Ruskin was
drowned. The others, including Mr. and
Mrs. J. Moss of $50 East 154th street.
The Bronx. were saved.
The body of an unidentified man was
washed ashore at Larchmont In dis
abIed motor boat. He Is believed to
have been drowned, but the police said
there last night that they had not yet
determined the cause OF death.
Etertion Kills nm Onrsman.
Charles F. Emerson, president of the
Emerson Clothing Company OF New
Rochelle. was rowing in Echo Bay with
his wife and three children when the
storm struck. He was able to make
the shore, but the exertion brought on
an attack of heart disease from which
he died.
William Susan, 10. OF 244 West 1i2th
street was drowned when the canoe
In which he was padding with his
brother Benjamin was swamped In the
Hudson River off Dycl<man street Ben
jamin was rescued.
Miss Edna Smith. II years old. was