Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1897-03-10
GAS EXPLOSION.
Three Electric Cars That Were Pass
ing Wrecked by the Explosion.
forty-Two People Were InIur-d-E CHIT
Are Dead and Other Bodies Are lie
hesed TO Is Under tho street
Large Building. Damaged.

BoSroN, March 5.-An explosion OF
escaping gas in the subway at the cor
ner of fremont and Boylston streets.
shortly before noon Thursday, threw
the neigh borhood into panic IL is
one of the crowded corners Of the
city.
The explosion wrecked three cleo
trio cars that were passing at the time.
and one OF them was burned Several
buildings in the vicinity were more or
less damaged.
Among the buildings damaged are
the Hotel Pelham, the Knickerbocker
and Head buildings and the Masonic
temple Window glass in the build
ings within 200 feet OF the scene OF the
explosion were shattered
Four bodies have been removed to
Jones undertaking establishment
Forty-two persons are at the Elmer
gency hospital.
The dead AT Jones undertaking cs-
Enlistment are: Rev. W. A. Slack
professor at Tufts college; G.. ID. Bigc-
low, conductor; AN unknown man and
woman.
The injured are: James Reardon.
John Is. OConnor, Thomas f. Ford,
Mrs. j Il. Wilson. Nellie Jackson.
Lucy Dolan, +. W. feeling and Mrs.
+. A. Peck.
There seems TO Ice no doubt that at
least eight persons were immediatcl
killed. The explosion came lust as
three street ears were almost in the
center OF the space at the corner
the FIRST car was in the center when
the explosion came The whole of the
wooden work which is used As "A bridge
over the subway, was lifted into the
air, carrying the first car with IL and
taking along the two horses of the
second car. The other vehicles
were lifted straight into the air
but came down on the tracks
Instantly the air was filled with living
debris The first electric car. the one
in which most of the killed were rid
ing, no sooner reached the tracks than
1t broke in halves and the whole por-
tion almost Immediately burst into
atoms Then soon sounded "a fire
alarm. This brought large rescue
force to the scene and almost immedi-
ately calls were being sent out hur-
riedly for the ambulanccs.
1t was an awful sight that met the
gaze OF those who were first on the
scene
In the center was the long. blazing
electric car. Close beside this were
the bodies of the two horses killed in
stantly, and all about, from 10 To 30
feet away from where the wood work
OF the car was bla ling lay the dead and
wounded people. Those not injured
in the cars on Boylston street were
incapable of action at first and persons
IN the buildings and stores surround
ing did not know what had occurred,
but 1T did not take them long to recov-
er their senses, and almost Immediate
ly there was a rush to the assistance of
the wounded
1t is stated that there was not a per
son on the three cars referred TO who
was not injured, and a II the wounds
received were severe Immediately
stores and Offices were converted into
temporary hospitals until ambulances
could arrive 1t was grewsome spec
tacle to see these bodies exposed on
the sidewalks.
Hose carriages were pressed into
service as ambulances and immediate.
ly they were started on their humane
duty of getting the manned to the hos.
pitfalls.
1t is supposed that one of the dead
women at Jones undertaking rooms is
Mrs. n. NJ. Bates She was out with a
sister Thursday morning and has not
returned. The sister returned home
slightly injured