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Show FIFTEEN PEOPLE OWNED SUNDAY Atlantic City, N J., June 20 Storm current, suddenly creating n great ocean swell as disastrous as a tidal wave, swept eiht bathers lrom their footing here this afternoon and drowned them In the sight of thousands thou-sands that thronged tho beaches. Miles off the coast a summer Btorm, developing with amazing rapidity, rap-idity, sent immense rollers landward and the great combers coming at tremendous tre-mendous speed created offset currents cur-rents which took hundreds of bathers bath-ers unawares. Before the volunteer and paid llfesavers could command the situation the eight lives had been lost and scores of persons had had very narrow escapes from drowning. The Dead. MISS MARIAN R CRABMBR, 18 years of age: the daughter of James Craemer ot Jenklntown, Pa. She was a pupil at Beechwood college. Jenklntown, Jenkln-town, nnd had been spending a few days here Her body was not recovered recov-ered JOHN LYSLE, 30, Philadelphia, a prominent lawyer. His body was recovered re-covered CHARLES J. MATLOCK, U. a structural ironworker. Philadelphia; his body not recovered. FRANK BRIOHAM, 16, Philadelphia, Philadel-phia, son of Commodore Martin E. Brlgham; body not recovered. PHILIP ARNOLD. 1?, Philadelphia ; body not recovered. WILLIAM CROW. S. Philadelphia; bodv not recovered. JAMES of 'CAY, 60, Philadelphia; a i florist; body not recovered. I CHARLES GREEN. 44, fisherman, I Atlantic City, N. J., body recovered Three persons are in the hospital suffering from exhaustion. They are I in a serious condition, but probably i will recover. Two of them, Walter Margerum. and Edwin Craig, are life guards, and were very nearly drown- I ed while attempting the work of rescue. res-cue. The third is Morris Shepsbire I of Philadelphia. In addition to these at least thirty persons were carried to sea. They were saved only because the life guards and the volunteers risked death lime and again They were treated on the beach, resuscitated by pulmotors and sent to their hotels or to cottages. The disaster occurred with incredible incred-ible suddenness. The great throng sunning themselves them-selves on the sands or venturing into the surf had no warning of real dan ger. In bright sunshine and mild air the pleasant beach swiftly became a scene of panic and terror. Thousands who were frolicking in the warm water wa-ter glanced seaward, saw immense waves rolling toward them and fled for the shore. Cries of alarm spread jail along the sands Life guards and special policemen hastily prepared boats and sent them into the heavy seas. But before their pluck and skill could be utilized several persons had been drownned . In the gallant effort ef-fort to save life some of the Phila-delphians Phila-delphians were drowned. Three in New York. New York. June 20. Three drownings drown-ings and as many more narrow escapes es-capes was Sunday s record near New York, where warm weather lured large crowds. In sinbt of thousands on the beach at ESdgemere James R. Brumer of Brooklyn was carried out by a strong undertow and drowned. The upsetting of a rowboat pre cipitated a fishing party of five into the Shrewsbury river near Highlands. High-lands. N. J Two men. as yet unidentified, uni-dentified, were drowned. Ruth Collis, 4 years old. of Ogdens-burg, Ogdens-burg, N J.. tripped while wading in a brook and was drowned in less than a foot of water. Four Near Philadelphia. Philadelphia. Pa, June 20. Four persons were drowned In and near Philadelphia today. Theodore George. 48 years old. a boiler inspector at the Philadelphia navy yard, iost his life in the surf at Wild Wood; Herman Her-man Posett was drowned in a small stream in Montgomery county and Max Rudnik. 24 years old. and Charles Helllfman, 15 were drowned while swimming In the Delaware river. nr. |
