The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-03-05
FATAL EXPLOSION OF GAS
TWELYE KILLED IND FIFTY WOUN-
DED ~ BOSTON.

Three Street Cars Destroyed Buildings
Damaged-Professor Stack of Tufts Col
lege Kiled-Emergency Ambulmoes
Have Plenty of Worl-Many Injured
Persons Taken to Their Homes,
Boston, March Am explosion oc-
CURED in the subway excavation at the
corner Of fremont and Boylston streets
at ~ o'clock to-day and caused the
death of at least twelve persons, and
the injury of twenty or more.
The explosion wrecked three electric
cars that were passing at the time, one
of them being burnd up. Several build
ings in the vicinity were more or less
damaged,
The explosion was caused by escap-
ing gas. One of the wrecked cars was
on the Cypress street line, Brookline,
outward bound. Another was Mount
Auburn car, from Cambridge. Among
the buildings damaged are the Hotel
Pelham, the Knickerbocker, the Head
building and the Masonic Temple.
Window glass in buildings within 200
feet of the scene of the explosion was
shattered
Five bodies have been removed to
Jones' undertaking rooms. One of the
dead is a conductor of the street rail-
way.
Forty-two persons are at the Emer-
gency street hospital.
THE DEAD.
Those of the dead at Jones undertake
ing establishment are:
The Rev. w. A. Stock, professor at
Tufts college
G. D. Bigelow, conductor
Unknown man and woman
INJURED AT STATION FOUR.
James T, Reardon, sos Massachusetts
avenue, head and back.
John j. O'Connor 145 Elm street,
Cambridge back and head,
Thomas T.. Ford, 56S fremont street,
ccutusions.
Mrs. J. r. Wilson, II st, Charles
street. shoulder hurt.
Nellie Jackson, 315 Marlboro street,
arm and back hurt.
Lucy Dolan SO West Brookline street,
| shoulder injured. ;.
nue., contuSiOns.
Mrs. r. A. Peck, 243 Allston street,
| back injured.
There seems to be no doubt that at
least eight were Immediately killed
The explosion came just as three street
cars were almost in the center of the
space at the corner. The first one was
on it's way directly across fremont
street, keeping straight on Boylston;
the second was just turning from Ire
mont to Boylston street, while the third
was close behind this one. There was
another car on Boylston, waiting for
an opportunity to turn into fremont,
and behind this We're several more
The first named car was precisely 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 named car with it, and taking
along the two horses of the second car.
The other vehicles We're lifted straight
into the air, but came down on the
| tracks.
/ Instantly the air was filled with fly
ing debris The first electric car the
riding, no sooner reached the tracks
than it broke in halves. and the whole
of it almost Immediately burst into
flames. Then some one sounded a fire
alarm from box SO. This brought a
large rescue force to the scene, and al
most Immediately calls We're being sent
out hurriedly for the ambulances.
The coachman who was driving Mrs.
Bates, and who was killed, was d. E.
| Sibley.
d. In addition to those reported, there
are at the Emergency hospital William
Maidour, waiter at the Thorndike ho-
tel; Mrs. Mary E. Stowe of so Floyd
street, Waltham. a music teacher, left
thigh broken and bad scalp wound;
dangerous list.
7. Fl. Sargent, who was the driver of
the Back Bay car, has fracture of the
base of the skull and will die. His
horses were blown to pieces.
There were about fifteen other per-
| sons, slightly hurt, who We're treated at
the Emergency hospital and sent to
their homes. Their names We're not
taken.