Show TEN DROWNED VJ WHEN IEN STRANGE W WAVE AVE SV SWEEPS QUIET SHORE Beaches Near Buffalo On Lake Eric Scenes of Tragedy CAUSE IS MYSTERY Children Drowned By Similar Phenomena On Isle Off Maine BUFFALO N Y Aug 9 fly ByThe The Tho Associated Pres Ten Press Ten lives appear to have ho been the tho toll ex- ex exacted ex exacted acted by the mystery wave ave which swept Brant Grant and Farnham beaches yesterday esterday Seven bodies have hav been recover recover- recovered recovered recovered ed and others are aro missing of ot the scores swept from front their tc feet et when the giant slant comber sudden suddenly Iv rolled In from Lako Lake Erie and engulfed crowds crowds the holiday crowds No plausible theory ot of the visitation tation has hils been advanced d d other th n It may have been the Hie after arter- aftermath aftermath math of or some somo recent lake lako lak storm Some Somo of ot the bathers caught in its grip described It as a tIdal Udal wave against which the th swimmers were powerless 3 And many ot of o those who had iad taken advantage of oC the th warm holiday to seek sek the beaches could not swIm a stroke 11 Lii OF OP WArEn Almost unnoticed the wallo wall wail ot of water surged forward through the ranks of ot bathers and then back again ln In a II resistless l under tow which carried dozens out ot of their depths There were numerous rescues and numerous numerous at- at attempts at nt attempts tempts to reach the tho wildly thrash thrash- thrashing Ine ing orm grm arm of ot a II helpless victim At least one ono man Heine Carstens lost his life lite when he returned to the lake after arter brInging one gIrl ashore lie He disappeared far out and later his body was washed In Elaine 18 IS years old ot of Buffalo Duffalo who was caught I n n the sw ePi At nt Brant said sald 41 It t J seemed though t-though he ho had suddenly step step- step stepped ped pad oft off a ledge ledr Into dc deep dp p water ater Then rhen came the rush ot of o water back from tho the beach like liko a II mill millrace millrace millrace race he said Although NIchols Is II a a good rood swimmer he could do dono dono dono no more moro than hold his Ws own agaInst It It And once one released from the tho grIp crip ho swam fifteen minutes before betor he ho could touch bottom agaIn CHILDREN X DROWNED MONHEGAN ISLE Maine Aug 9 COy By The Associated Press Press- Press Two children were drowned yes yes- yesterday yesterday yes yesterday by a wave of ot unusual somewhat similar to that reported to have swept beaches rear But Dut- Buffalo falo CaIO N Y Jacqueline Barsto- Barsto Ii year old year old daughter ot of o Mr Ir and Mrs James S Barstow ot of o New York was swept away from her feet fees by a sudden huge huco comber Edward Vaughan of ot South South- South Mass a playmate went pluckily to her lier rescue but both were washed to to to sea by the tho sub sub- sub subsequent sequent undertow Neither body had been recovered early toda today |