The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-03-05

uhu OAptOo4Oi was SfSN 49,
quickly enveloped In flames,
There were seven or eight persons IN
the car at the time. All OF them were
severely injured md burned so that they
will probably die. The motorman was
blown off the car and manned Tor life
Just in front of the spot whefe the eX-
plosion had its greatest force was Back
Bay car on the inbound track and
Brookline ! car on the outbound. Jhe
passengers in these cars were severely
shaken up and the old people had to be
assisted from the car.
The correct theory of the explosion Is
given by the engineers OF the subway al
ter u careful inspection ofEtne disaster.
The scene was where the fourth section
jntersects the section coming down the
Boylston street mall The fourth Sec
ton is unle1 contract to the Metropoli-
tan Construction company and there re-
NAMED only the restoration of the street
at the corner and the BACK ming OF
portion of the walls on the westerly side.
This work was to have been completed
by the close of the present week and the
an hire section turned over to the transit
commissioners.
The method followed in building the
subway. is to make what are known as
cut and cover openings about IL feet in
width, and where the street surface is
opened to set up heavy braces OF steel
and lay plank roadway.
The distance between the planking
and the top of the arch of the tunnel at
this point was about four feet. This was
the last opening made BY the con-
tractrs. In recalkine the joints it is
reasonable to suppose that number OF
defects remained, out owing to the
strong flooring and the close joining OF
the planks whatever gas escapes was con-
fined in the our feet space and there-
r. aa,o mad dnfnctiOn Thus charged a
spark from the wells of the electric car,
undoubtedly ignited the fluid and caused
the SHOCKING disaster that followed.
At the corner where the accident oc-
CURED there is probably more travel than
a any like section OF the city.
Windows were shattered IN pu1lo1ngs
on fremont street from below the IRE
mont theatre to Lagrange street, and on
Boylston street from Washington street
almost to Park square.
A list of the dead follows:
Rev, W, A. Start, pastor OF Tufts col
Miss Matilda Bates, 10 Arlington street.
VIM. E. Vinal, Salem, private seore-
tary to Thomas W. Lawson, ~ state
street, Boston.
Bsni. Downing, hack driver, 3 Tenn
ME street.. died on way TO hospital.
D. ii. Sibley, carriage driver, burned
beyond recognition.
Among the injured are:
Electric car conductor, thigh fractured;
Sam Morton, an actor at keath's thea
tire, dangerous internal injuries; Mary
e. Stone, SO Floyd street, Waltham, bad
" shaken M. but may not be seriously
injured; Alexander Levois, sos Shawmut
avenue, a West End conductor, arm
fractured; s. D. N:ckerson, Cambridge,
grand secretary 10 the Masonic order,
cut In the head and face bS glass; J: j.
Venes, 26 Lowell street, cus in head, Tony
Byagarry, Blagden street, head cut:
Henry J. Kelley of engine company 26,
had a spike enter his left foot; Mrs.
Charles s. Bates, II Arlington street,
was injured while riding in car; VIM.
'Maybow, waiter at the Thorndlke,
q fracture of the skull: 81. Woodcock,
"a years old, 23 Dexter street. South Bos-
ton. maohinist, slight wound on right
hand; II. Ballard, Al years old of 8
Barstow street. Aston, gas filter, abra-
so years of age, WAS badly hurt; Patrick
III. Graney, 35 years of age, 26 Broad
street, Woburn, truck driver, severe con-
fusion, of hip and knee: Z. Q. Worcester,
23fMagnolia street, Roxbury street, injury
TO Head; lillian Rose. % years, ] IL Beach
street, South Boston, clerk, confusion
of the right leg; John J. Burns. A years,
Lows street, South Boston, a musician
at the Park theatre; Patrick Delaney,
IS years, ~ East 9th street, South Boston,
had five stitches in head; Charles Newell,
draughtsman at City ball, had one stitch
taken in bis scalp; John Gill, aged II,
East Boston, left shoulder broken; Mary
sic teacher, fracture OF left thigh and
scalp wound: Thomasa Brown, 33 years
old, Church street, laborer, fracture
70 1T; Mary A. Hipwell, 595 fremont
street, injuries to spine; A. K. Sargent,
motorman, 1918 Washington street, bad
ly injured, severely cut about face and
head; Miss Sadie E. Fleming, 1893 MARI
boro street, bruises on limbs and fore
head, struck on back by beam; Annie
frank, 1874 Marlboro street. badly shaken |
up; James r. Reardon, 1853 Massachusetts |
avenue, cut head ands other minor in |
juries; John j. O'Copnor of Halifax, N. |
s., injured knee; Fred W.Deeley, IS Har.
rison avenue, COMMISSIONS and lacerated |
wounds on left eye; Mrs. S. A. Peck, 1923
Mrs. J. r. Wilson, II ST. Charles street, !
injury between shoulders; Nellie Jack |
son, housekeeper at 315 Marlboro street, |
Injuries to left arm and back; Sadie NJ. |
Brown, injuries to head; Charlotte L. |
Main, featured thigh; A. B. Cunning |
ham, motorman, injury to his leg, pro-
badly fracture; A. L. Sherburne, 191
WOnloh oVohEOf CuU III tllO LSou
by flying glass; John Ross, 1871 Long |
wood avenue, BrooEline, face out by |
glass: Vol Kepler, 80 Newman street, |
deep cash inssrlght hand ;Adolph Lundin, |
proprietor of the Turkish baths under |
the fremont theatre, cut slightly by
glass; Mrs. Hoiatio Bigelow, Fairfield |
street, back severely injured; Miss Alice |
Richardson, friend of Mrs. Bigelow |
thigh fractured: ]. Hennessy, Roxbury,
slightly injured; Augusta L.. Wilson, |
age 80 years, II st. Charles street. |
lacerated wounds of head ana injury to |
back; Anna Harding, ear cut; Mrs. l.. |
A. Beck, 233 Everett street, Allison. back |
injured; Charlie Lenair, SO years, ia
maica Plain, fractured thigh and a bad |
SCALP wound; Phillip Wool, barber, head |
badly cut and rendered unconscious, be- |
ing blown across the shop; Frank Tobey, |
aged 81, 100 Maiden street. left foot bad |
ly cut; Thomas. E. Ford, 96S fremont |
street, oontusions; Lucy Dolan, SO West |
Brookline street, injured back and |
shoulder; Fred Deeley, 1913 Harrison ave-
nue.. multiple injuries, will die; Paul
Haokett conductor, 81 Albany street, |
leg broken, scalp wound.