The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-05
o,o EXPLOSION AT BOSTON.
,rusoNs KILLED AND NEARLY
SD FIFTY INJURED.

Iniured Expected to Die.
wv KILLED in Their Tracks and
p...et cars EnveIoped in Flames
shattered in buildings for
Blocks-The Explosion
I'll nv Gas Leaking From Two
cb Wnins-SmOke and Flames
ssoot sl,,-ward From the Bowels OF
the Earth
,.,l,ed from the two great six-inch
s''| mich cross the subway at the cor
gu. - fremont and Boylston streets, kill
injured two. probably fatally, and
'.,rly fifty other persons at ll;4o O'CLOCK
pday. O.,
~ smoke which seemed to arise
t5a very bowels of the earth, and
danes shot upward and blazed in the
'' '5.t of thoroughfares where there is
travel than anywhere else in a given
..,tion of the city.
p,rses lay dead on the pave ment; panic
-..rer messengers were endeavoring to
,.na with their lives from the interior
thinning cars and steam fire engines were
ba scene pouring tons of water upon
y. r,nidlv disappearing cars. Glass was
s.+tsre5 in the buildings along fremont
-. az far as La Grande street, and
18th bevond the fremont theater to
gTy2.sbinafon street, and west almost to
rum T5a list of dead and injured, as far as
,sosrtained follows
'Taled-Rev. W. A. Start Bursar of
--a,e College G. D. Bigelow, conductor;
Ms A. NJ. Matilda Bates, William E. Vi
~ private secretary to Thomas w.
dyson. benjamin Downing, a hack
irrer and d. II. Sibley, hack driver.
The intured-Mary A. Hipwell, A. r.
,.-rsrt Miss Sadie E. Fleming, Annie
frank. James R. Reardon, John J. o. Con
nv Fred W. Deeley, Mrs. S. A Peck,
iI-s / p. Wilson. Nellie Jackson, Sadie
y Brown. Charlotte L. Main, A. B. Cum
ringaam. A. l.. Sherburne, John Ross,
Toif Kopler. Adolph Lundin, Mrs. Hora-
in Bigelow Miss Alice Richardson,
Sam Morton, Mary E. stone,
seyander Levoise, S. d. Nickerson, John
Venes, Tony Byagarry, Henry j. KEEL
sv Mrs. Charles r. Bates, william May
soW H. Woodcok, N. H. Bellard, Nancy
0Neill. Patrick H. Greaney, T.. G. Wor~
ester. Lillian Rose, John ]. Burns, Pat
rck Delaney. Charles Newell. John Gill,
Tbomas Brown, j. Hennessy, Augusta
louisa Wilson, Mrs. L. A. Beck, Anna
Harding, Charlotte Nair, Phillip Woolf,
Frank Tobey, Thomas S. Ford and Lucy
Doan.
All of the killed and injured re-
sided in this city or In suburban towns.
The explosion came just as three cars
nff laa a
the corner. The first one was on its way
directly across fremont street on Boyl-
ston; the second was just turning from
fremont 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 were several others.
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 deep hole at this
point was lifted with a frightful roar into
the air, carrying the first named car with
it and taking along the two horses of the
second car. The other vehicles were
lifted into the air. Instantly the air was
filled with flying debris and above the
shouts of terror-s tricken pedestrians could
be heard the groans and cries of the
wounded. The first electric car, the one
IN which most of the people were killed,
fell back upon the track and broke in
halves. The portions Immediately burst
into flames. Then some one sounded a
fire alarm and calls for the ambulances.
Within a few minutes the Emergency
hospital ambulance was on the scene.
Other ambulances followed and the fire
department responded promptly and ex-
tinguished the flames.
squad Of $50 policemen was INSULT
cient to keep back the thousands of peo-
pie who rushed in from all sides and it
was only by giving a false alarm of a sec
ond explosion that they were able to
drive back the crowds and rope off the
street
The firemen, police and laborers con-
veyed the dead to the morgue and the in
jured to the hospitals
Not only were all the window fronts
broken in the neighborhood, but from a
jewelers. window, precious stones. said to
be worth $4,000, were scattered about the
street.
The foundations of the Hotel Pelham
are said to have been shaken badly, while
every window display in the neighborhood
was injured more or less. 1t is utterly
impossible to estimate the loss in that dl-
recton.
The immediate cause of the explosion is
OF course, uncertain, but the most gener-
ally accepted theory is that ii was started
by spark from the electric motor from
the Mount Auburn car igniting the gas
which escaped from the old main that runs
Inn fNs.r =. l.