The fall shattered his right arm, broke every rib that he had, punctured his lung, and he drifted in and out of consciousness as he drifted down the East River, under the Brooklyn Bridge and out into the pathway of the Staten Island Ferry, where passengers on the ferry heard his cries of pain, contacted the boat's captain who contacted the Coast Guard who fished him out of the East River and took him to Bellevue Hospital.
Kritiens sadragāja viņa labo roku, salauza visas ribas, caurdūra plaušu. Viņš te atguva, te zaudēja samaņu, slīdot lejup pa Īstriveru, zem Bruklinas tilta, līdz patrāpījās ceļā Stetenas salas prāmim, kura pasažieri izdzirdēja viņa sāpju pilnos kliedzienus un sazinājās ar kapteini, kurš savukārt sazinājās ar krasta apsardzi, kas izķeksēja viņu no upes un nogādāja Belvjū slimnīcā.