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Women Save Three In Sea.
WOMEN SAVE THREE IN SEA
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Rescuers, in Street Dresses, Form
Life Line to Exhausted Men.
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Doctor and Companions, in Peril of Be-
ing Swept Away, Are Towed
Safely to Shore.
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Special to The Washington Post.
New York, July 28.--Three men in a launch that was awash to the gunwales in a heavy sea were rescued by a group of quick-witted women this afternoon at Nassau-by-the-Sea, on Point Lookout near Great South Bay. The men who were rescued are Dr. S. R. Arvorne, H. W. Dusenbury, and H. S. Wynkoop, all of Brooklyn.
There was a choppy sea just off the entrance to the inlet in the afternoon when the little launch with its three passengers appeared. The motor stopped and the men could do nothing but let the water come aboard until the boat was on the point of sinking. The men jumped overboard with the intention of pushing and towing the launch to the shore, which was only a few hundred feet distant.
In an instant the current caught them and swept them seaward. A group of women realized the serious predicament of the men, and by good fortune they found a long line. One of the women drove a stake into the sand, and to this the line was made fast. Then all the women, those in street gowns as well as those in bathing suits, waded into the water, holding fast to the line.
When the boat got near the beach again the woman farthest out cast the coil of rope. Dr. Arvorne caught the line and made it fast to the launch. Then the women pulled with all their strength, and in a few minutes had the satisfaction of hearing the launch beach on the shallow sands. The three men were almost exhausted.
Source:
Unknown, "Women Save Three In Sea," Washington Post, Washington, D.C., Saturday, 29 July, 1911, p. 2.
Note:
H. S. Wynkoop of Brooklyn is Hubert Schuurman Wynkoop, the only surviving child of Richard Wynkoop, author of the various editions of Wynkoop Genealogy in the United States of America, which can be found elsewhere on this site.
Chris
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