Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-09-23

those from surrounding cities an,
towns had been notified
Every sort of a vehicle was presse.
into service and the work of removin,
the injured to the hospitals were be
gun. Within two hours more than /;
score had been treated but of the mum
Der three Succumbed to the injurie.
, they received
The bodies of the dead, many OF
which We're mangled beyond recogni-
| ton, We're removed to the undertaking
rooms, but at II o'clock the bodies OF
two women and n little 3-year-old girl
We're unclaimed. One Of those who had
died III the hospital, woman, was So
badly mhngled as to make Identified
ton at once impossible.
There was but little left Of the
wrecked car. The entire front portion
was blown to pieces, the middle portion
| wrecked, but the rear was fairly in
tact. Conductor Blanchard who was
/ on the rear platform, was not injured
ut al.
The controller Of the car was hurled
agninst The Masonic building 40 feet
| away, Willie pieces Of the car We're
picked VI, ut a distance of more than
an eighth of a mile
| The car was No IA of the Boston &.
| Northern Street Railway Co., closed
| ear, about 40 feet long with vesti-
bule at each end. 1t left the Subway
| in Boston at o'clock in charge Of Con-
ductor Blanchard and Motorman
| Rowe. There was quite number Of
people or board at the time, but several
got off ut chelsea, Everett and Maiden.
| In the latter city, however, several
| passengers got on board for their
| homes in Melrose and Melrose High
| lands, so that when the car left NAL
| den. every seat was taken and several
lcorle We're standing.
The car proceeded up Main street
ana had passed the junction of Wyom-
| ing aVehue when it began to slow no
| for q passenger. According to those
on board. it Was not going more than
| five or six miles an hour, when the ex-
plosion occurred.
The force of the explosion practical
| ~ tore off and hurled in all directions
| tho front portion of the car. and it was
| here that the deaths occurred. Farther
| back in the car the sides We're blown
| out ANA the roof tumbled IN, pinning
| down many of the passengers. On the
| rear platform. the conductor and four
| or five others escaped without injury
One "f the passengers of the car
said that it seemed as though the car
Was lifted bodily into the air and then
to ,,ia,o.
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