The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-12
LAUNCH NORkANDlE SUNK,
PILOT, ENGINEER AND 4 WOMAN
THOUGHT TO NE DROWNED.
she was c. W. Dun, Ont's BOat. 10 Feet Over
Ali Owner Not Aboard Hit by
Tramp on DObbs Ferry Put
OUT Lights At Once and Went On.

Out Lights At Once and Wen, On.
tramp steamer ran down c. W. Du-
mont's steam launch Normandie of Dobbs
Ferry about o'clock last night, and 1t Is
reported that three persons, the pilot.
the engineer and a woman, were drowned.
Three men we're rescued and as soon as
they got ashore at Dobbs Ferry they made
of. refusing to tell the name Of the boat.
John A. Rudd OF Yonkers. one Of the
number, gave it to the Yonkers police at
midnight. He seid that the launch was
returning from Peekskill when 1t was struck
by the steamer. After sinking the yacht
the steamer kept right on. he said. He
presumed that the three persons who did
not come ashore had been drowned
About 9 o'clock last night cries for
help came from the Hudson River OPP
posite the Manila brewery, Dobbs
Ferry. Presently a small boat brought
three men to shore.
One Of the rescued men, according to
report, had life preserver Oh. One OF
his companions when he saw the life pre-
server became very angry.
Throw that away" he said, 'Do you
want to be reoognzed1'
The life preserver was Immediately
thrown overheard. When the three men
were landed at Dobbs Ferry they are said
to have inquired anxiously II any one else
had been saved. When they heard that
no one else had come ashore they seemed
very much fusterej. They refused to
tell their rescuers who they were and
took train for New York.
1t was an hour later before the police
hno II kt,r kha Oh Thnp
they telephoned to the New York police to
intercept the three men. The message
to the New York police came from Rounds
man Costello OF the Dobbs Ferry police
and said
Tramp steamer going north ran into
yacht opposite here, which sank. All on
board but three men were drowned. Name
Of men and all information were refused
/ by the men. who left on the 10 20 train going
| south"
The train dispatcher at the Grand Contra !
Station received this despatch shortly
before midnight
AT 10 o'clock tonight a large ocean
tramp. apparently Swedish vessel. COL
| lided with and sank small yacht on the
brewery dock in Dobbs Ferry. Immcdi-
ately after the accident all lights on the
ocean tramp we're turned out and she stood
of up the river.
Ten minutes later three men came
ashore in a boat and inquired whether
any one had been seen swimming ashore
from the small boat.
Informed that there had not, they
oitered around until the arrival Of the
1921 o'clock train for New York, when
they got aboard. At II o'clock the tramp
moved out OF sight up the river.
PAT CosTELLo.'
T. Mccarthy OF Dobbs Ferry. who was
out on the river in a launch, say vs. thatanother
launch. from black boat about $50 feet
long living near the middle Of the river came
in to Dobbs Ferry with three men who
had been picked up Mccarthy said he
understood that the big boat had run
launch down.
The three when they were landednquired,
hearing that no one had, they hurried away,
Mccarthy said refusing to give their names.
He supposes they took train for New
York.
On the boat according to the Yonkers
police, was man named Green, who did
not live in that city Mr.. Dumont was not
aboard.
The Normandie is a steam launch and
was formerly the Alert. She was built
at Middletown, Conn. In 1889. Her tonnage
is Is gross and net She Is a wooden boat.
go feet over all, ~ feet on the water line,
1917 feet beam and 40 feet draft. She
has Il two cylinder engine.
The Normandie is owned by c. W. Du-
mont, who has residence at Northport,
H. !. Mr.. Dumont is the president of the
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