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Long Island lifesaving feats amid brutal 1904 storm
In February 1904 a crippling gale struck the Atlantic coast from Maine to the Gulf. At Lone Hill on Long Island a schooner Place ran aground, four life-savers battled with ice and waves for two days to rescue two men, one dying of frost and injury. Other rescues followed as Surfmen Raynor and Latham saved a drowning sailor from the Cromwell, while two tragic wrecks on the island’s ends underscored the perils faced by the U S Life-Saving Service.
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New York
Long Island
United States
Weather Bureau
New York City
Florida
Gulf
Maine
Atlantic Seaboard
Louis V. Piece
Baltimore
Willam Squires
Chesapeake Bay
Reniy
Squires
Sandy Hook
Lone Hill
Great South Beach
Ahreugs
le Jie Hill
Blue Point
Lone Hil
Saunders
Bihe Point
Point O’ Woods
Lfe-Savers
William Stevens
Soren Nelson
Nelson
Miesavers
Stevens
Benjamin
Cromwell
Portland
Bellport
Great South
Beach
Frank Raynor
Rorke
Raynor
Albert Latham
Latham
Lfesavers
Rockaway Shoals
Newa
Jersey
Massachusetts