The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1904-09-22
CAR STRIKES DYNAMITE;
is BLOWN TO PIECES
SHOCKING DISASTER ON troll
LEK LINE IN MELRoSE, MASS.

Six Persons killed Outright and Three
Others Die at HospitaI--Nineteen In
iured, Many Of Them seriously-Ex-
posiye Fell from Express wagon
Driver Hurrying Back to Get 1t When
Car struck It-Placed Under Arrest.
Melrose, Mass, Sept. 21-An outward
bound electric car containing thirty
two people was blown to pieces at s
o'clock near the corner Of Wyoming
avenue and Main street. this city, by
striking a fifty pound box Of dynamite
that had fallen off an express wagon.
Six people were killed outright, three
more died Of their injuries within an
hour, and nineteen others on the car
were taken to the two hospitals suf-
fering from all sorts of wounds. At
least a score Of people in the immediate
vicinity Of the explosion were treated
for cuts from flying glass and splinters.
AT IL o'clock tonight the following
dead had been Identified:
DR.. Malcolm q. McLennan, Melrose
Highlands; b. B. Haynes Fairmount
street. Melrose; Winfield Rowe. Saugus,
Mass, notorman; p. A. Stowe, 84S East
Fifth street, South Boston, (died at
Afelrose hospitalJ; Fred d. Marshall, 81
South Botolph street, Boston, (died at
Melross hospitaD.
The unidentified dead were three
women and three year old girl. One
BIZ he women died at the Melrose hos
pital.
The injured were: Edward A. Water
s house, 1S Rowe street, Melrose, face
but and ankle fractured; one foot am-
putated; Thomas Bigwood, Chelsea,
slightly; John w. Miller, Lynn, slight
ly; Charles e. Butterfeld, Chelsea,
Slightly; Ann Barrett, Maiden slight;
~. D. Patten, Melrose Highlands both
ankles injured, scalp wounds; left foot
Amputated; George II. Andrews, Mel
rose compound fracture left leg, foot
Amputated at ankle; Edith Furlong,
z Melrose, slight; Rebecca F.. Wallace,
( Maiden. slight; Blanche Stanton, Mall
hen, slight; Frank Burnham, Melrose.
Slight; Martha Lee, Wyoming, scalp
and breast wound; G. B Shaw, Maiden,
slight; Henry Bowes, Melrose, slight;
b. M. Edwards, jr., Maiden, face cut;
( Mrs. John conway, Melrose. both legs
broken below the knee; George F.. Hsr-s
lis, Maiden, slight; DR.. Perry, Wake-
5eld, both legs broken cat sunnyside
aospitalI.
So great was the force Of the explo-s
Ear was blown into small pieces, while
windows within a radius Of a quarter
B. 4 mild were shattered.
The immediate vicinity Of the acci-
ient presented a fearful spectacle when
hose in the neighborhood reached the
5cene 4Th ground was streWn with legs,
arms and other portions Of the bodies
+ bf those who had been killed, while
i shrieks and groans came from the
+ vrithing forms of the injured.
A. The car contained mostly men on the
way to their homes In this city, the ac-
\ .ident taking place only a quarter of a
mile from Melrose center.
( The police at once began an investi-
! cation Of the accident and soon had in
custody Roy Fenton, the driver of the
( Express wagon. 1T was learned that
was on his way to the local
j Express Office. He had placed on the
Il billboard Of the express wagon two fff-s
j y pound boxes Of dynamite consigned
4 10 the City Of Nfelrose He drove along
! Main street, and did not know until he
i 'eached the express office that the box
y had slipped off his wagon. He hurried
( back towards Main street In the hope
i bf picking it up, but the electric car
#eached the box first.
MI The force Of the explosion was terrific
lind the report was heard many miles.
Directly opposite the scene was the
Masonic building, every window of
il which were shattered, and through one
q il the windows human foot was
II blown. There was more than score
hsbf people within q few hundred yards
rpf the car nearly all Of whom We're
d Knocked down and rendered deaf by the
L oncussion. Glass and splinters were
i blown In every direction, and but few
80 the passersby escaped some sort Of
:s wound.