New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-05-17
EXPLOSIONS ON YACHT.
EIGHT PERSONS HURT.
EIGHT
Rescued zith Difficulty from Mrs
III. de 3, Gibson's Yd1Cl.

Eight persons were injured and burned by an
ovnIos,on of easolene on the yacht vagabond in
the Hudson River off Eighty -eighth-st. yester-
day afternoon. The boat is owned py MIS-
Harvey de Blois Gibson, of NO East oeVei''
third-st The injured are:
BUTLER Charles twenty-five years Old on Sn9 i 0 BODY
5aa . East 6ssd ana s- tn ) Hood
CONCORD W H. thirtyegh years Old 81 no - % the
ss1seas Gas opa0g t6esf 0S 'of o
face head nd hands; Roosevelt f1osplt@i-
otei Imperial guest yacht aldermen @ Of
No 9o7 Franki1.s MsSs9 TpanT Of Boston burned
about face head and arms; to Roosevelt hospl'sl
GIBSON Mrs burned about face arms s. aha @ bonoe in
paisSte paisa 70 ear2ia2e x9 a9 !" "''D''1'
e a: Si'a
face: 10 ]. Hood Wright Hospital
lived on yacht burned about face and breast 70
,1srI1 s,1rsI a launch man Of No. AS West Fifty
seventh-st: burned about face hands ana OreaS' 10
prsrtT Freder,ck twenty seven years old salesman
Of No 44s Fifty sevenths visiting ms or9 ~
Roosevelt hospital
About 1:3O p. woman came ashore IN
launch from the yacht. which apparently hao
inst come in from a cruise. AS she LANDED a'
the Hudson River Yacht Club pier violent eX-
pIosion was heard the yacht followed In
,,on,ent nv a second one. Both explosions were
n
hoard their clothing afre, and swim TO
sbora They landed at Eighty -eighth-st. Soon
afterward they were found in drug store kept
~ Harry Firdings at Broadway and Eighty
afgbth-st where they were having their nurns
tarnnorartly attended to- They were the I"o
guests on the yacht, Folger and Concoro- "a
+roIr,an Butler sent a hurry call for an aInou-
lance and had them sent to Roosevelt Hospltai-
Patrolnen Christopher Thorplus ana 'o"ii
Er+1ar of the West One-hundredth-st. statloh'
1no heard the explosion. being on the water
front saw flames leap up from the ya"l iHeS
i,r,ned into a rowboat and started for the
ool, Al the same time two brothers, Martin
a,d 1obn Natm. Jumped into another boat and
ad +o the Yacht Both boats arrived there
ahou+ the same time. Samuel Risch ana Lar
son two of the employees on the yacht wee
found living on the deck unconscious Idrs'
- 80 tho others were huddled in the for
ward mart OF the yacht. as far as posslole
-o,, the flames which were rapidly creeping
toward them. All were burned more VI ie'
severely o7
+ Tho six people with difficulty were removed
-. ..o Yacht bv the two patrolmen and the
,-io b-otbers and were taken ashore at the
ro,rrbta Boat Club landing. at Elgnty-slAth-St.
D. +bs time the injured people had been lahdeo
Contain McNally. of the West OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
station with the reserves, arrived at the Coluih-
-. Dat f1Iuh house and gave all assistance pos
- A,,huIances were summoned from Roose-
-. Hood Wright and Harlem hospitals. and
- ;,trrad were attended TO. Dr. H G-
r,,.,wade1 of No 313 West Eighty -seventh-st-'
at+ended TO Mrs Gibson's injuries. She re-
60 20 % to the hospital and went to her
homo in a private carriage. Ambulance sur
o,s attended to the other patients and they
v,are divided among the three hospitals
rantain Rich commander of the ooat was
asborA az the time of the explosion He reacheo
~ scene in a short time. He said the Naga-
hond was a yawl rugged yacht with auNihary
o-ol.,e engines She is Is feet beam and 81
fee. waterline The boat is registered IN the
r4,deon Roat Club. She has % horsepower
The Areboat New-York FASTENED 10 the fre on
o call from Police Headquarters. Before she ar
,,,ed three tugs-the NJ. Henderer, the President
ond tho William E Chapman-were on the
soane and poured streams of water aboard the
vagabond with the assistance Of the hreooat'
+ba tugs noured in enough water to sink the
vawl Her spars projected above the surface
4 witness TO the explosion was T. IL laloerl'
q member of the Hudson Boat Club he satld
that he understood that five or six barrels oil
easoIene had been delivered to the yacht yes
tardav and that il was possible that the accl-
dent bannened while the gasolene was being put
,,+o the tank which is on the yacht for that
purpose
The damage caused by the explosion is va
riousIy estimated at from S1o.oo to s-o'"".