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METRO DATELINES; 2 Bodies Recovered From Coney I. Creek
New York Times
July 27, 1987
A police scuba team yesterday recovered the bodies of two men who apparently drowned during a futile effort to rescue an 8-year-old Brooklyn boy who had fallen into Coney Island Creek Saturday afternoon, the police said.
The body of the boy, Steven Santana of 3246 Bayview Avenue, had been recovered Saturday night. When the police suspended their search late Saturday, they said a neighbor of the victim, Daniel Dowdy, 32, of the same address, had tried to rescue him and was missing and presumed drowned.
Sergeant Tina Mohrmann, a police spokeswoman, said that in the course of the resumed search, divers at noon yesterday found the bodies of Mr. Dowdy and a second man who was believed to have joined the rescue effort. The third victim, who remained unidentified yesterday, was described as a black man in his mid-30's.
The Santana boy had drowned at about 4:20 P.M. Friday where Coney Island Creek passes near the intersection of Bayview Avenue and 33d Street. The creek is a two-mile-long body of water along most of Coney Island's northern shore.
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2 Drown and 4 Are Missing In Canoe Accident in Jersey
New York Times
June 9, 1985
A 33-year-old man and his 5-year-old son drowned, two adults were missing and a 3-year-old boy was rescued yesterday after a canoe overturned on the Navesink River in Rumson, N.J., the state police said.
Authorities said that the accident had occurred just before 8 P.M., and that the bodies were recovered about three hours later.
The 3-year-old was pulled from the water almost immediately by a passing boater in this Monmouth County community and was in fair condition last night at Riverview Hospital in Red Bank, authorities said.
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10-year-old nearly drowns in Newport
Child at Dunes Resort taken to Hoag Hospital in fair condition
By KIMBERLY EDDS
The Orange County Register
Thursday, June 21, 2007
NEWPORT BEACH– A 10-year-old was taken to the hospital after almost drowning at the Dunes Resort Wednesday afternoon, authorities said.
Firefighters called to the resort about 1:30 p.m. found someone trying to get the child to breathe, said Jennifer Schulz of the Newport Beach Fire Department.
Paramedics were able to get the child breathing and rushed the child to Hoag Memorial Hospital in Newport Beach in fair condition, Schulz said.
A four-year-old Moreno Valley girl died Tuesday, hours after she was discovered on the bottom of a Villa Park backyard pool during her brother's sixth birthday party. Nine children under the age of 18 have drowned in Orange County since January, according to the Orange County Sheriff-Coroner.
Contact the writer: 714-796-7829 or kedds@ocregister.com
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2 Youths Drown Off Randalls I.
New York Times
June 9, 1984
Two Bronx youths drowned Thursday off Randalls Island, a police spokesman said after the police recovered the bodies yesterday.
The bodies of the two - Flor Malave, 14 years old, and Daniel Sanabria, 16 - were found by a harbor patrol boat, according to the spokesman, Sgt. Peter Ruane.
The sergeant said the younger boy jumped into the water off the South Bronx, swam nearly 20 feet, and was swept away by the strong current. His companion dived into the water to help him and was also carried away.
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4-year-old found on pool bottom in critical condition
Girl was in crowded pool at her brother's sixth birthday party when she slipped underwater unnoticed.
By KIMBERLY EDDS
The Orange County Register
VILLA PARK - A 4-year-old girl is in extremely critical condition Tuesday after she was pulled from the bottom of her family's backyard pool during her brother's sixth birthday party.
It was a perfect day for a party – warm and sunny. There was a bounce house in the front of the home in the 18700 block of Colony Circle. There were lots of kids and lots of adults.
As many as 15 children – ranging from 3 to 16 years old - were playing in the pool with four or five adults keeping watch, Sheriff's Department pokesman Jim Amormino said. About 1:40 p.m., the children were called to get out of the pool to eat, Amormino said.
In bathing suits – and some with water wings – the kids all got out of the pool, except the 4-year-old. Parents found her on the bottom of the shallow end of the pool, said Capt. Stephen Miller of the Orange County Fire Authority. A parent pulled her out and gave the girl CPR, Miller said.
Two sheriff's deputies were called to the house and tried to resuscitate the girl while waiting for an ambulance. Paramedics first took the girl to Chapman Medical Center in Orange – but later rushed the girl in extremely critical condition to Children's Hospital of Orange County.
Seventeen children under the age of 18 have drowned in Orange County since the beginning of the year, according to the Orange County Sheriff-Coroner's Office. Eight of the children who drowned were under 13 years old.
"This just reiterates that you have to have someone watching the kids in the pool," Miller said. "You can't afford to leave them alone for even one second."
The Orange County Fire Authority kicked off an anti-drowning campaign Memorial Day weekend to remind people about water safety.
In California, drowning is the No. 1 one cause of death of children younger than 5, according to the Orange County Fire Authority. It is the No. 2 killer of children under 14.
Nationwide, 70 percent of preschoolers who drowned are in the care of one or both parents at the time of the drowning.
714-796-7829 or kedds@ocregister.com
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No hesitation: Dad dies saving son
Star Tribune
By Myron P. Medcalf, Star Tribune
Last update: June 30, 2007 – 9:49 PM
With his 2-year-old son, Lucas, face down in the water, Miles Xiong didn't hesitate.
Not stopping to don a life jacket, the 35-year-old Shoreview man dove from a pontoon boat into Turtle Lake in Shoreview, where the family had been tubing Friday evening. With his pregnant wife, Laurie, and 7-year-old son, Noah, also in the water, he struggled to get the toddler and everyone else back to the boat. One by one, they clambered back aboard the craft -- but suddenly Xiong was gone, family members and friends said Saturday afternoon.
Laurie screamed for help. Then nearby boaters and authorities began a frantic search. But Xiong never reemerged. Rescue workers found his body more than an hour later in about 8 feet of water. He died late Friday night at Regions Hospital in St. Paul.
Ramsey County authorities said they aren't sure how Xiong drowned.
An autopsy was performed Saturday and results are expected in a few days, said Cmdr. Rolland Martinez of the Ramsey County Sheriff's Office. Alcohol was not a factor in the drowning, Martinez said.
"Any person who has kids would not think about putting on a life jacket [before] going in after their kids," said John Kim, Xiong's brother-in-law. "I would do the same thing."
Xiong's selflessness to save his family surprised no one gathered at his Shoreview home Saturday afternoon.
Kim's eyes teared up as he reflected on what he will miss most about Xiong: his cooking, his barbecues, his company, his generosity.
Xiong, a dental hygienist in south Minneapolis and a University of Wisconsin-River Falls graduate, was born in Laos, but emigrated to the United States after spending time in a refugee camp.
He met his wife in college and they eventually designed a home on the same property in Shoreview where she had lived as a child.
Laurie's mother, Jan Heaberlin, still lives nearby. She went down to the private launching area near her home after she heard about the accident to comfort her daughter and her children. All were cold and wet, she said.
Heaberlin said that Xiong's eldest son, Noah, may understand what happened to his father but that the younger children, including 4-year-old Tyler, can't quite grasp Friday's accident.
"I don't think the boys really realize," she said. "Kids that age don't know this is forever."
Kim also ran down to the beach. Laurie told him that she had made a quick decision to join her husband and Noah in the water to help Lucas, who was wearing a life jacket.
Family members said Xiong was a good swimmer.
As Kim sat with his sister on the shore Friday night, he said, he caught a glimpse of rescuers loading Xiong's body into an ambulance. "I just lost it," Kim said.
And now family members have to think about how they'll help Laurie, a physical therapist, raise her sons and get through another pregnancy safely. Tina Sivilay, a family friend, said she'll leave her Carver County home and move in with the family to make sure Laurie takes care of herself; the new baby boy is due in late July.
Both Kim and Sivilay described Xiong as a jack of all trades. He planted the lilies and geraniums that surround his home. And both of them said he was a role model for other husbands. When the guys would play golf, Xiong preferred to stay home and spend time with his family.
That loyalty made Xiong a "man's man," said Dr. Kent Canfeld, owner and dentist at Family Dental Care in south Minneapolis, where Xiong had worked for more than a decade.
"Every patient was so impressed with how gentle he was, but he did what he had to do," he said.
Reminiscing about Xiong on his front lawn Saturday, family members and friends smiled and cried while telling stories about his affinity for fishing and travel.
Heaberlin said she's going to get a fishing license so she can take her grandchildren fishing the way Xiong did. She said she couldn't have asked for a better son-in-law. Kim said his brother-in-law set a great example by the way he lived.
"He was probably one of the most giving and loyal people you'd ever meet," Kim said. "That's the kind of brother I wanted."
Myron P. Medcalf • 651-298-1546 • mmedcalf@startribune.com
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Autistic boy who drowned remembered at funeral
Associated Press
Published June 24, 2007, 12:02 PM CDT
NEKOOSA, Wis. -- Hundreds of family members, friends and people who helped look for 7-year-old Benjamin "Benjy" Heil remembered him at a funeral.
John Wilhorn described his autistic grandson as active, saying he would always grab him by the hand to take him places.Wilhorn said he would miss that hand the most.
"It brings comfort to the family knowing that he is with the Lord right now," Wilhorn said. "His autism is gone, and that brings comfort."
Benjy first was reported missing on June 14. Hundreds of people, dogs and helicopters looked for him until his body was found five days later. Preliminary autopsy results say he apparently drowned in a pond adjacent to Ten Mile Creek less than a quarter mile from his town of Saratoga home.
The funeral on Saturday was moved from Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Nekoosa to Nekoosa High School to accommodate a large number of mourners.
Rev. Carl Kummer, who led the service, said the community-wide effort to find the boy was a "spontaneous explosion of love."
Allen Polum and Robert Zarecki, both of the Rudolph Fire Department, helped search for Benjy.
"I think it's great of all the people that could come out and help," Zarecki said. "It makes you feel good that the community is behind anybody that needs it."
Wilhorn said he was glad the family had closure.
"(Benjy) is in heaven with God now," he said. "That's what brings me joy."
Information from: Daily Tribune, http://www.wisconsinrapidstribune.com
Copyright © 2007, The Associated Press
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Autopsy Discloses Drowning Caused Death of Boston Boy
UPI
Published: October 17, 1983
A 5-year- old boy whose body was found in a neighbor youth's closet after a two-day search by the police, volunteers and the National Guard died by drowning, an autopsy showed.
The authorities said the boy, Kenny Claudio, was drowned in the home of a 14-year-old neighbor who has been arrested in connection with the death. The boy's body was found Thursday.
The suspect was arraigned and held on $250,000 bail. Newman Flanagan, the Suffolk County District Attorney, said he would ask at a hearing Oct. 28 that the youth be tried as an adult.
Body of apparent drowning victim recovered from Madison lake
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Associated Press/Chicago Tribune
Published June 17, 2007, 9:31 PM CDT
MADISON, Wis. -- Dane County authorities on Sunday recovered the body of a Madison man who presumably drowned after he ended up in a lake while boating with friends.
Cory Walker, 26, was on Lake Mendota with four other people Saturday evening when he went in the water. Sheriff Dave Mahoney said Saturday it was unclear whether Walker meant to go swimming or fell in.
Investigators used sonar equipment to find Walker's body, which was between 25 and 30 feet below the surface.
Mahoney says at least some of the people on the boat were drinking, but he didn't know if alcohol was a factor in the drowning.
Copyright © 2007, The Associated Press
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Body of Boy, 10, Is Found Off S.I.
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: April 26, 1982
The body of a 10-year-old Staten Island boy was found in the Kill van Kull, authorities said yesterday. The boy, who was mute and autistic, had been missing since Feb. 14. The police said the child, Stephen Vance, apparently drowned. His body was discovered Saturday by a tugboat worker in the kill, a strait between Staten Island and Bayonne, N.J.
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