EXTRAORDINARY UNDERTOW

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 736, 8 February 1910, Page 5

EXTRAORDINARY UNDERTOW

■ THE NEW BRIGHTON FATALITY. '■' OTHER BATHERS' EXPERIENCES. . Correspondent.). 1 ?-1 v mi -i February 7. • 7 ' A-i? hew, Brighton Beach,the- soeno of . tilfl bathing, fatalities is penerolly regarded as fairly safe. The slope of the beach is gradual and the sand is very--.;.nrm. ./Yesterday; however, •• according .'to • ;.B 6 P wa° have spent many seasons atNew •Brighton, there was an unprecedented .;. .•: ..undertow,' combined with breakers. which : travelled with terrific force., ■ The under- .. r*W. seemed -to catch tho bottom of 1 an advancing breaker, and force it back until ■ * heaped up on the surface - and craahed forward, clouting ■ unwary l)athit a ■ r ,°® ■ sufficient,- at ■' times, ■to ;; cairy,thorn right : off their feat! • .'. ' "• V. . where the ■•missine' bro- :: 'T 1 " 1 - George; Lee, left, their ■ :i _coats:airf. towels i is about a' quarter of a wuth of the'pier. - Apart' from' . S««ig':f<ir,"a-'bathq • ' Mats and towels, ' ' knows what became of them. ' : ' 1"?, reported; to . the v fecal 'eleven had'his hands' •& r.P.;. t ®" ,:?.' v..the_.pier, . where several - bathers ... , were in difficulties.- In ,'attempting res- , "t^uers 1 got into similar - ffi«^ tl «s:6TOntually, . and had to • be pulled up ropes thrown from the Pier or-by peopla linking hands from the" :shore. One sinmmer .was so exhausted : v w i his'thrashing *by the ' beach°all h dragged on to • the Ut me dio!" K ' y Wte = Ut m 6 ' nnrf^'iLi 110 d T°woing accident was reported, however, the constable "left / the "'' - bS-air rl.-? 1 M<l 'he • • , dW and. all meht, ' but- oonld. . - j. 11 ?, of the' missing wraths. The SuL ftto;lh ff. y St bwin for .' E townrf! 3 doMn .Pw!o mn S thave -J-bout-seven o'clock last ovewing anat- ' tempt was made to recover the Sdi£ W means of. a trawhng' net. v rt ,;(i .. ~ »en. that the r«al force of tho undertow - : ; was realised, . The men with, the rnt had ... hardly got into waist-doq, water when' , . they ■ were ■ dragged . quite, .off 'their feat ana had to be pulled back, riot and all! by.people on the shore.':. One liaaa,. in his struggles • with the breakers,. Hot go tho rope, and was grabbed just in time bv a oomrade. ' u