New York, New York
Rockaway Beach Storm & Drownings
June 9, 1902
MANY DIE IN STORM.
ROCKAWAY BEACH STREWN WITH WRECKED
PLEASURE CRAFT – EIGHT KNOWN DROWNED.
EIGHT MEN DROWNED.
NEW YORK, June 9. – Eight lives are
known to have been lost by drowning as the
result of the great gale that raged about New
York from noon yesterday until well into the
night. Many others, it is believed, perished on
pleasure crafts. The known dead are:
DILLINGHAM ROVER, WILLIAM
HELFEFISH, ALEXANDER WINSLOW, MAURICE SILVER,
DAVID KERR, HUGH MCKEAN, ERNEST LEFFLER AND
LOUIS FRIEND. All were out in sail
boats. More than 100 sloops and cat boats, each
with a party of from four to fifteen amateur
fishermen on board, were caught in the gale on
the fishing banks off Rockaway beach. They had a
terrible time. The wind blew at the rate of from
forty to seventy miles an hour. A number of
pleasure craft known to have been out in the
storm are as yet not heard from, and it is
feared that they are lost.
Fort Wayne News, Fort Wayne, IN 9 Jun
1902.
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