![]() ![]() The teenager, the shark’s fifth victim, was bitten in the creek less than a half-hour later and survived. ![]() A young man named Watson Stanley Fisher attempted to save the boy, but was fatally injured in the process. On July 12, Lester Stillwell, 11, was playing in the creek 16 miles inland when the shark attacked. The rogue great white traveled 30 miles north of Spring Lake and into Matawan Creek. Five days later, and 45 miles to the north, in Spring Lake, New Jersey, Charles Bruder, a young bellhop at a local hotel, met a similar fate. A lifeguard pulled him ashore, but he quickly bled to death. A shark sunk its teeth into Charles Vansant, the 25-year-old son of a Philadelphia businessman, out for an evening swim in the resort town of Beach Haven on July 1. In the summer of 1916, panic struck the Jersey Shore. ![]()
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