Arizona republican., 1904-09-22
Horrible Accident on Mass.
 aChuSettS Electric Road
NINE MANGLEO AND DEAD
The Vicinity Was Strewn With Legs and Arms-The Car Struck Box of Dynamite Which Had Fallen From an Express Wagon.

Meirose, Mass, Sept. 21.-An outward bound Boston electric car was blown to pieces at s o'clock tonight in this town. Nine persons were killed out right, and several others fatally injur- ed and at least fifteen severely hurt. It is thought the car struck charge of dynamite left on the track. The front dashboard of the car was hurled more than fifty feet. The immediate vicinity presented a fearful spectacle. The ground was strewn with legs. arms and other portions of human bod ies.
 So great was the force of the explo- sion that two men standing in the door Of a store fifty feet away were se- verely injured by flying pieces, while every window within radius of quarter of a mile was broken.
 The police announce that the cause of - the wreck was the striking of fifty pound box of dynamite which had fallen from an express wagon just ahead of the car. The express wagon was driven by Roy Fenton, who discovered that the box had dropped out and rushed back to take it off the track, but before he got within a , hundred yards of the box, the car came along and was blown up. Fenton was taken into custody by the police. The dead:
 DIR. MALCOLM E. MLENNAN. Melrose Highlands.
 F. B. HAYNES, Melrose ! WINFIELD ROE, Saugus. Mass, motoIman
 | F. A. STOWE, South Boston. l FRED D. MARSHALL, Boston. Unidentified dead are three women and a three year o!cd girl.
 Edward \. Warehouse of MeIrose ] suffered an amputation of the foot and was otherwise badly injured pr. Per ry of Wakefield had both legs broken l Mrs. John Conway of Melrose had both legs broken. Geo. H. Andrews of Mel rose received a compound fracture oi the left leg and his foot also was am- putated. All of these are likely to die
 So great was the force of the expIo- sion that all but ten feet of the rear portion of the car was blown into small pieces and shrieks and groans came from the writhing forms of tn, injured.
 The car contained mostly men or their way to their homes in this city the accident taking place only a quar. ter of a mile from the MeIrcse center Within a few minutes a great crow had collected and the injured were cared for until physicians not only from Melrose, but from Medford, Ever ett and Maiden reached the scene.
 For more than three hours there wa, the greatest confusion and t was diff
 icult to obtain the names of any O. the dead or injured or to ascertain tn, cause of the accident Thousands O people rushed about trying 70 find rel atives and friends and the hospital were besieged.
 Fenton, the driver of the express wa EOn, it was learned, was carrying tyv, fifty pound boxes of dynamite on hi wagon and did not know until h reached. the express office that one O the boxes had dropped off He hur ried back in the hope of picking i
 up, but the electric car reached the bo,
 first. The report was heard for man
 miles. Directly opposite the scene Wa the Masonic building, every window O
 which was shattered and through on
 of the windows a human foot Wa
 blown. 4 score of persons within
 hundred yards of the car were knock
 ed down and rendered deSf by the con : cussion.