New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-06-19
EXPLOSION, RAIN OF IRON.
MANY HURT BY MISSILES.
Yacht Club Women GiUe First did
-.Subsody Boring Suffers.


More than dozen persons, one of whom will
rrobably die were injured by the explosion of
boiler in the air compressing plant for subway
construction ar 163d-st. and the North River
Yesterday. Scores of men, women and children
harelv escaped the shower of steel that fol-
lowed
The completion OF the boring for the subway
,unnel through the solid rock from 14Sth-st- to
Fort George may be delayed as the result of the
exposion, as the compressors furnished not only
the power for the drills. but also the fans to
clear that part Of the tunnel already completed
The list of injured, all of whom are in the ].
Hood Wright Hospital. is as follows:
East 7lst-st-. right foot crushed
.NATO John. fourteen years old, No 25e6 7th-ave-.
contuslons OK back and internal injuries
PANEL @ sssaRt ens9ss5 bo bs sSss sssrS Sea ea
No t II0 va Iaoerations Of chest n6er S arrest at the
hospital charged with felOnious assault
rrwoRD Edward fifteen years old No. 142 West ID
ST. contusiOns of the left side
MORGAN Joseph thirty years old. colored married.
No 800 We o g 1Tean Saea robaSiv % stIl m
Altemsia. Anlato and EIword had been swim
ming and were standing the river bank when
The explosion occurred One Of the beams from
the power house. driven high in the air. came
down lengthwise. pinning the boys under it
The corrugated steel roof Of the power house
was Cor71 iuto pieces which flew il. shower over
the railroad tracks and clubhouse of the West
End Yacht Club. So thick were the fragments
On the railroad tracks that they had to be
shoveIled off to permit the safe passage Of
trains
The dome of the boiler which exploded
driven high in the air and landed on the slope
of the hill 800 feet away. 1t rolled to the feet
Of a party of seven women and children sitting
beneath a big tree near the clubhouse None of
them were injured.
The power house was one story building
with q frame of steel beams covered with CORFU
gated steel. 1t was built five years ago and in
it were battery OF four boilers of eighty horse
uower each and the engines and air compress
ors which thev fed 1t was situated at the bot
tom of the big hill which stretches toward the
river from 169th-st-, ten block south The power
house is separated from the waters edge by the
double tracks of the New-York Central and
Hudson River Railroad. Across the tracks Is
the house of the West End Yacht Club
TIE verandas Of the clubhouse held more than
2 hundred people when the explosion shook the
building. Then began the shower OF peahls'
tcantlings and bits of steel and iron FROM Ihe
-syrecked powerhouse the people could hear the
cries OF the manned men. Led by the stewart
of the club, A Seifriz, they ran across inc
i
force their way into the shack on account OF
the clouds OF steam. When they were aDie W
rst in with John Farrell and Patrick Ryan, two
,.,o.,ers of the day shift at the power station,
who happened to he out of the building when the
.YpIosiou occurred, they found Barry, the en-
sineer huddled up in the corner furthest from
No / boiler, which had exploded Morgan lhe
fireman had been hurled against the side OK the
building and was pinned down by steel beaIa'
Both men were carried into the clubhouse. MRS.
Seifriz and the Misses Barbara Concle, Emma
Marshall and Ida and Emma Jones bound UP
their wounds as best they could
Barry and Morgan were carried into the
launch belonging TO Adam Marshall. and in
charge of Policemen Delamater and Buroan
taken to the landing at 129th-st-, where they
were met by ambulances from the ]. HOOD
Wright Hospital
While the two men were being removed to the
clubhouse women on the veranda had seen the
plight OF the boys All three were knocked down
by the beam and lay still, as If unconscious
They were taken to another boathouse near ny
and revived by the ambulance surgeons before
they were removed to the hospital
Two girls who were walking on the railroad
tracks stopped at the sound of the explosion and
looked back A few seconds after they hau ColIe
so a steel beam landed almost at their feet
Dr. Severance, at ]. Hood Wright HOSPITAL
treated seven other people who went there from
the scene OF the explosion They mao suSIdlileQ q
cuts from the shower OF steer ana liis pi.S VI
roofing Dr. Norton said he attended several IN
5ured people at the clubhouse.
The shower of steel tore down almost all the
telegraph wires along the railroad tracks On
one of those that remained were found MOT
cans shirt and stockings, hundreu leel from
fha mower house. Within five feet or the soulh
side of the power house was a coop used as q
home for rabbits. guinea pigs ana ooNes' MOI
one Of the pets was Injured
Besides ordering the arrest Of the injured en-
eTneer Barry, Captain Halpin also ordered that
7. a
+eL-en into custody He was charged with feloni-
Gus assault as he seemed to be the only one
about the plant in anything like responslble
,,osi+ion The property according to the police
Tenor+ belonged 10 John B. Mcdonald, the sub
1Tay Contractor The contractors of record for
The boring are L B. McCabe & Bro