墜落導致他的右臂粉碎 ， 他的每條肋骨都斷了 ， 他的肺被刺穿 ， 他順著河流漂到東河時 ， 時而清醒時而昏迷 ， 他漂到了布魯克林大橋下 ， 到了史帝登島渡輪的入口 ， 在那里渡輪上的乘客 聽到他痛苦的叫聲 ， 報告了船長 ， 船長報告了海岸警衛隊 ， 海岸警衛隊把他從東河打撈上來 并把他送到瞭貝爾維醫院 。
The fall shattered his right arm, his every rib broke, his lungs pierced, and he drifted down the river to the East River, sometimes conscious and sometimes unconscious, and he drifted under the Brooklyn Bridge to the entrance of the Steden Island Ferry, where passengers on the ferry heard his cries of pain and reported the captain, who reported the Coast Guard, who salvaged him from the East River and took him to Bellevue Hospital.