Almost Eaten Alive
Flve young men who left the city in a small sailbo.it for Greenwieh had terrible experie;1 . saya a Salem (N J.) Ingram. One cf them, G?rgeTay lor, 21 years o'.d, v. ü and an other, William Warrington, saved him self by swlmming and then narrowl escaped death frorn the bites of mosquitoes and greenhea 1 flies. The five had secure 1 work at strawberry pieking on a farm at Greenwich and expected to begin tliis morning. They had reached Dunk's bar, above Bayside, when thfy : k by a squall. Desplte lïorta their boat was capsized and all w re thrown into the water. While their companions mar.nfred to reach the bottom of the overturned boat Taylor and Warrington started to swim ashore. They had reached wlthin fifty yards of the beaeh when Taylo.r all tl to Warr'ngton for help. He had become exhausted and his swlmming was slow and measured. arrington tvrned about to help his friend, but as he dld so Taylor sank beneath the surfaoe and rose no more. Nearly exhausted hlmself, A'irrington turned shoreward again and by great effort managed to reach it. He feil In a faint amtd the rank grasa oí the salt marsh, whcre he was found several hours later a'.most dead. He had Buffered untold torture from the stings of "greenheads" and mosquitoes, which swarm in myriads about the salt meadows. The rest of the party clung to the upturned boat and were rescued by a passing vessel.
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