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Show JiUHCHJXPLOSION riblo Accident at Marion. Mass., Results in Fatalities. IVIVORS IN THE WATER 12 HOURS WHEN RESCUED imiiicnt Men Come to Sudden Sud-den End While on Pleasure Pleas-ure Trip. IRION, Mass., July 12. Four iont summer residents of this md Falmouth met death through dosion on board a 47-foot launch o Inst night. Tho survivors were up today after having been in iter for twelve hours. The Dead. AND WORTHLNGTON, Boston. :N TRULL, Wobura. EPII E. BEAL. Milton. )RGE SAVORY, Marblehcad, tho i of the launch. W Tne Saved. Tarboll, Marblehcad. rani Pecker, Boston, cr, who was clinging to an oar. ubell, who was supported by a llfc-rcr, llfc-rcr, were able to swim, and they ed together until picked up by n fisherman going out In tho early i ig to haul his nets. His b6at was y tho two struggling men In tho long before the fisherman could ! them out. Finally he spied tho j exhausted swimmers and rescued Explosion Was Sudden. I rier of the survivors was able to . ie cause of the explosion. Tarbcll, wned the Dolphin, as the launch Jlcd. said that the boat stnrted out I larion on a short pleasure trip, and ell out in the middle of the Buz-bay Buz-bay when the explosion occurred, the engineer, was suddenly blown is air and probably was dead when uck the water. The boat caught nmedlately, and Tarbell called to mrades to leap overboard. Ho ed a llfe-prcsorvcr about himself, he leaped, and Mr. Pecker, who nected with the Boston banking f Rollins & Sons, seized an oar and :d. So far as they knew, none of hers in tho party jumped. Either :ould not swim and preferred to to the disabled launch until help or else they were stunned by the . Tarbell and Pecker remained near unch for several moments, urging comrades to Jump Into the water a cushion, oar, llfe-presorvor, or ling, for tho launch was burning r. One man, believed to be Ro-Vorthlngton, Ro-Vorthlngton, was seen clinging to ie of the boat, lually the launch drlftod farther eea and Mr. Peckor and Mr. Tar-ero Tar-ero forced to give up hope of aiding comrades. Thfty turned landward vara slowly, so as to husband their th as much as possible. It was ' hours before thpfr rescue came. i Rescue Parties Lcavo. n as news of the disaster reached :arly every summer resident and in who owned a yacht of launch wont out in tho bay to search for ace of the boat or Its occupants, search proved fruitless. Tho undoubtedly sunk with all on arty had gone out for a cruise In at the Invitation of Mr. Tarboll, me here yesterday from Marble-eck. Marble-eck. Mr. W'orthlngton. who was i the summer at Falmouth, was owner of real estate In the Bos-nclal Bos-nclal district, but had retired from iiislncss. Ho was -18 years old. In i to membership in tho Eastern rlnthlan Yacht clubs, he belonged us clubs In Boston. ither, the late Roland Worthing- i s a prominent figure In Boston's for many years, being collector of t under President Grant and at io owner of the Boston Traveler, ill, who was GG years old, was well hi Boston mercantile circles, and ?mce of business there. He lived um. For a long time ho was con-fflth con-fflth the print cloth manufacturing of David Kevins company of "U'o-He "U'o-He wn vice-president of that J', but retired a few years ago. 'C a widow and three children, teal was connected with the office Osceola Consolidated Mining com-' com-' Boston. 7. the engineer of tho craft, was old and unmarried. He served SpanlEh-Ainoricnu war. |
