The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-03-05
Scores We're Injured by Flying
and Falling Glass From
Numerous Buildings.
SIX KILLED, OTHERS MAY DIE.
Mayor Quincy Says the Responsibility Rests
Between the Gaslight Co. and the Subway
Contractors Inquest Begins Today.

Boston, March 5.--Five men and one
woman dead, another man dying, and
nearly three score persons of both sexes
more or less seriously MANNED, is the rec
ord in brief of the explosion which oc-
Cured in. the very heart of this city yes
terday.
Following is a list of the killed:
Rev. w. A. start, ID. D., Medford, bur-
sar, Tufts college.
William l.. Vinal. Salem, Mass.
Miss A. NJ. Bates. Boston. h
Guilford Il. B!gelow, driver. West End
street railway.
benjamin Downey, herdic driver, Bos-
ton.
Delano VI. Sibley, cab driver. Boston.
Following are the names of the wound
ed and their injuries:
Fred Deeley. Boston, dislocated elbow
lacerated wound across the eyes and
head and confusion of back. May die.
B.'R. Sargent, Boston, compound frac-
ture.of skull; expected TO die.
William Maybour, Boston, fracture
base of the skull.
Paul Hackett. Boston, both legs brok-
en-, head cut.
Mrs. Horatio Bigelow. Boston. SO
years. injured back.
Miss May +. Stone, Waltham, frac-
tured thigh. scalp wound.
w. Richardson, Newark. N. j., cut
face. head.
S. ID. Nickerson, Boston. secretary Ma
sonic Temple. head and face cut by glass
Samuel Morton, Detroit. scalp wound
five inches long, clear TO the bone.
John Gill, Boston, bad wound in shoul-
DER.
Mrs. Sarah A. Peck. 233 Everett street,
Allston, severe injuries to back.
Nellie jackson, 35 Marlboro street.
Boston, serious injuries to back and
arms.
Miss Sadie NJ. Brown. Regent street,
Roxbury, a reporter, spine injured.
Charlotte y. Nair 371 Center street
Jamaica Plain. fractured thigh.
Miss Alice Richardson, Fairfield
street. Boston. fractured thigh.
Sarah Fleming. 10 Marlboro street, in
juries to head and back.
ThirtY-fve others received minor in
juries, which were dressed at the Emer-
gency hospital and the police station,
and all returned to their homes.
Unexpectedly the confined gas was
ignited AMI then came a fearful report
and upheaval. There were two or three
ears just passing, and they were wrecked
and their passengers killed and injured.
There We're many pedestrians on the
fremont street sidewalk, and few, if any,
of them escaped injury. Driver Down
ing, With his herlic, was caught in the
flying debris and he was instantly
killed. The street planking was hurled
in all directions, glass was broken on
all sides, and the towering buildings,
notably the new hotel La Touraine,
were shaken to their foundations. All
these buildings will need a thorough in
spection before the damage done to them
can be estimated. 1t was only for an
instant that the dreadful disaster lasted,
and then came the rescuing of the
wounded, the caring for the dead and
the extinguishinG of the fire by the brave
firemen, who responded quickly to two
alarms.
With the vibration of the explosion
came Immediately a dense cloud Of
smoke, which, i'm the brisk March wind,
was blown through fremont and Boyl-
ston streets. Terror seized upon those
on the street nearby and in nearly all
the surrounding buildings. The air was
full of small fragments of glass, dust,
pieces of brick and timbers. The glass,
shattered from hundreds of window
frames, strewed the sidewalks and
roadways as after a brisk fall of hail
stones. People turned and ran for dear
life. others lodged into doorways. and
few. as the smoke and dust cleared
away, rushed toward the scene Of the
disaster. ghastly scene was that in
the center of the road, at the junction
OF the two streets. The pillar OF smoke
was being lighted up by the flames which
had taken hold of the wrecked cars, rails
were torn up and twisted into all sorts
of shapes. broken timbers and fallen cleo
trio wires tangled UP everything. while
here and there was the body of VIC
tim. the Shastliuess OF the scene being
made by the disembowelcd remains OF
the car horses. People who tried to res
cue the unfortunates in the funeral pyre
will never forget the sight, nor the ex-
citement which reigned for few min
utes.
on the sidewalk, at the northeast cor
ner OF fremont and Boylston streets, lay
the mangled form OF man, hastily COW
cred with q blanket and awaiting the
arrival of an ambulance. In the excite
ment, IL was hardly noticed. and more
than one hurrying man tripped over II.
At last the body was taken away, how