Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-07-03
WATER TAKES TOLL .
| OF ELEVEN LIVES
70
Seven Are PhiladeIphians Who
Drown in Nearby Bath
ing Places
GIRL, IA, AMONG VICTIMS

Eleven persons were drowned, seven
of them Philadelphians. in week end
accidents at nearby plnces. The VIC
tins include n girl. nine men and two
boys. They were:
Louie Mertz. fourteen years old,
013 Clementine street.
Matthew Adams. thirty-fiv years
old. 1110 Green street.
Frank Leslie. Forty first street near
Lancaster avenue.
william Bailey. forty years old. 4Oo1
Cresson street, Manayunk.
Conrad j. Riehl. thirty-two years
old, 554S Market street.
John Dehmar, ten years old. whose
residence was reported rs lolO North
Lawrence street.
Harry w. Wister. Jr.. twenty one
years old, 2029 North Randolph street.
Salvatore Romano, fourteen years
old, Millville.
Jerry Donoysn;, si1ty-fve years DID,
Billingsport, n. J.
Wasil Kaczmsrcya. Woodlyn, Ridley
Township.
Andrew J. Fleming, sixty years old
Reading, Pa.
Lives of three persons. two OF them
small children, were endangered when
Adams, who has been living at tho
Green street address only short time,
diyed from a rowboat of Billingsport,
causing it to capsize.
Many Rush to Rescue
Adams. who was in his bathing suit,
invited Jacob Kasitz. 075 North Leith.
aow street, and two children he had
with him, to 60 for a boat ride of the
hnsthouses at Billingsport. The chill
dren were Kasitz's daughter Elizabeth,
six years old, and Joseph Shelmag,
eieht years old. 938 Leithgow street,
When the boat was well out from the
shore, Kasitz said Adams stood up on
the gunwale and dove into the water
upsetting the boat. With the two chill
dren Kasitz struggled In the water.
Their cries brought aid from the pleas
ure seekers on the beach. Many boats
and swimmers set out to rescue them.
Harry Weidner, Louis Butts and
John Peacock were the first to reach
them. Kasitz and the children were
taken to the Office of DR.. Oran a. Wood.
Paulsboro, and revived. Graphing
was begun at once for Adams body.
Several persons said they thought they
had seen Adams after the accident, but
he failed TO return home, and members
of his family last night went to Bill.
lingsport. His clothes were found
Frank Leslie. an employe of the
Curtis Publishing Company, was
drowned when canoe overturned In
the Delaware. off Alympia Park. near
Psnnsgrove, N. J. Leslie was unable
to swim, and his companion. Joseph
to rescue him, but was held under
water by the drowning man until he
became exhausted and was forced to
save himself. The body was recovered
while hundreds watched from the
shore.
Getting a cramp while swimming
with several companions In the Mana.
yunk Canal yesterday afternoon, Bailey.
Negro. was drowned before aid could
reach him.
Kaczmarcya, an Austrian, was bath
Ing in Leiper's quarry, at Eddystone,
when be got into deep water and sank.
Pierce. He leaves a wife and four
children.
When several boy companions Of
Romano started home after swimming
in Union Lake, above Millville, \. j..
they missed him. Bathers dived for the
body, which was recovered by Thomas
Haas, Of Millville.
swimmers in the surf at Atlantic City
found Riehl's body floating just beyond
the line Of breakers. He was brought
ashore by life guards, and for half an
hour the pulmotor was used. He was n
bricklayer and was identified by fellow
workmen.
The Dehn.er boy was drowned In
sight of two other companions near
National Dark, where his parents have
been spending the summer. The body
has not been found.
Wister met death at Pennsgrove when
he was carried into deep water while
floating on log. and, losing his bal
ance, drowned before assistance could
reach him.
Boat Waves Drown Girl
The Mertz girl was drowned at Bris.
tol when she was caught in the side
wash OF river steamer. She was a
pupil ut the Hallowell Public School.
Donovan's body was recovered from
the lake at Billingsport last night. He
lived alone along the riverfront. lie
dove into the water and failed to rise
Rivermen grappled for the body.
Stricken with apoplexy while swim
ming at the Tulpehocken bathing beach
near Reading, Flemming sank In nine
feet of water. He was taken out in
three minutes, but failed to respond TO
treatment,