The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-07-24
DYNAMITE USED.

UlNAIlllE .u0EDs
Cleveland Street Car wrecked and
Four Persons Badly Injured By the
Use OF tho Explosive.
CLEVELAND, July 2S.--A Euclid ave-
nue. car. loaded with passengers, was
wrecked By an explosion Of nitro
glycerins or gun cotton. shortly before
II o'clock tonight. -Four persons were
badly hurt the names OF the injured
being Albert E. Fassett, B. A. Smith.
Mrs.. Harris and Mrs. Z. c. Martin.
The explosion tore out the front end
Of the. car, smashed ali the windows
and destroyed the brake. After consId-
cradle difficulty the car was stopped
and a call for ambuiances was sent out.
The motorman, William Dreggers. who
came from Cincinnati. was dazed by
the shock, but the conductor. Frank
Schroeder. Of st. Louis, escaped injury.
The force Of the explosion was 30
great that It shook all the houses in the
neighborhood and was heard for dis
tance Of two or three miles. There is
no clue to the identity Of the persons
who placed the explosive on the track.
Persons living IN the neighborhood
say they saw man In a buggy stop at
the corner Of Kenslngton street, where
the explosion occurred, and get out by
the railway track. He remained there a
short time and then drove rapidly
away.
Within a few minutes after the ex-
plOslon. a crowd OF a thousand people
assembled, and the injured, who were
suffering from shock, were cared for
until the ambulances arrived. None OF
them was dangerously injured, their
hurts being confined to bruises about
the feet and legs. Mrs. Martin tainted
before she was taken from the car. All
were taken to their homes in ambu-
lances. The motorman on the car man
aged to get out Of the vestibule Of the
car and then fell to the street, but he
quickly recovered and helped to extri-
cate the passengers from the wreck.
Passengers who were on the car say
the explosion seemed to lift the whole
front of the car, and 1t ripped up the
floor for more than half the distance
from the front end. The car was in
fact complete wreck, but strange to
say 1t did not leave the rails and was
taken to the barns by the next outward
bound car.
The police were quickly summoned to
the scene OF the explosion and a force
of men was detailed to investigate with
view to running down the person who
placed the explosive on the track. A
boy living near the corner soy the mys-
terlous man in the buggy. He said he
noticed the buggy drive up and stop
and saw the man get out. He fumbled
about the rails for minute or two and
then jumped Into the buggy and drove
away at gallop.
There seems to be no doubt now that
Mayor Farley will call out the three or
four available military companies In
this city in addition to those already
under arms. The call will include the
battery Of artillery and the governor
may be requested to send other troops
to the city.
Those injured In the explosion were:
Mrs. F.. C. Martin. 70 Annlson street,
compound fracture Of the skull, right
arm broken and internal injuries which
may prove fatal.
E. c. Martin, right leg badly cut and
bruised about legs and body
Mrs. Catherine Harris, rs Cornell
street. suffering from nervous proStra-
tIon.
F. A. Smith.
Albert E. Fassett. 1s Wallace Place,
legs injured.
Dora schessler. II oakdale street,
bruised about the body,
Late tonight 1t was learned that Mrs.
Martin, one of the injured, would prob
ably die. She suffered a compound
fracture Of the skull. had one arm
broken and was otherwise injured. She
was with her husband. who was also
badly hurt.
The police are now out searching for
the buggy in which the dynamiter is
supposed to have ridden and all sta
tlons have been notified to be on the
Iont,o,,t Ror a.