The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1904-09-30
CAR BLOWN UP.
Nine Persons Are Killed and Nine
teen Are Injured. ~
TRAGEDY OCCURRED NEAR BOSTON
Express Wagon Dropped Fifty Pound
Box of Dynamite on Track
Which Oar Struck With
Terrible Results.
Terrible Results.

AE outward bound electric car con.
tanning thirty-two persons, was blown
up In Melrose, Mass. Wednesday night
by striking tifty-pound box of dyna-
mite that had fallen Off an express
wagon. Six persons were killed out
right; three more died of their In
jures within an hour, and nineteen
others on the car were taken to the
two hospitals suffering from severe In
jurles. At least score of persons In
the immediate vicinity of the explo-
sion were hurt by flying glass and
splinters.
The following dead have been
Identified:
DR.. Malcom e. McLennan, Melrose
Highlands.
e. B. Haynes, Melrose.
Winfield Rowe, Saugus, Mass. mo-
torman.
E. A. Stowe, South Boston.
Fred D. Marshall, Boston.
The unidentified dead were three
women and 3year-old girl.
Edward A. Watarhouse, OF Mel
rose, had foot amputated, and was
otherwise badly injured.
DR.. Perry, of Wakefield, had both
legs broken.
Mrs. John Conway, of Melrose, had
both legs broken.
George Fl. Andrews, OF Melrose, re-
ceived a compound fracture Of the
left leg and his foot also was amputa-
ted.
All OF these are likely to die.
So great was the force of the explc-
sion that all but ten feet Of the rear
portion of the car was blown into
small pieces, while windows within
radius OF a quarter of mile were
shattered.
The immediate vicinity of the accI-
dent presented fearful spectacle
when those in the neighborhood
reached the scene. The ground was
strewn with legs, arms, and other
portions of the bodies of those who
had been killed, while shrieks and
groans came from the writhing forms
Of the injured.
The car contained mostly men on
their way to their home in the city,
the accident taking place only quar-
ter OF mile from Melrose centre.
Within few minutes crowd had
collected and the injured were cared
Tor until the physicians, not only from I
Melfose, 5utf5 from Medford, HyerettS
and Maiden reached the scene.
BOZ more than three hours there
was the greatest confusion and it was
diflicult to obtain the names of any Of
the dead or injured. or to ascertain
the cause OF the accident.
thousands of people rushed about
trying to find relatives and friends,
and the hospitals were besieged.
The police announce that the cause
or the wreck was the striking of fif-
ty-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 dis
covered that the box had dropped off
and rushed back to take it OH the
track, but before he got within hun
dred yards of the box the car came
along and was blown up. Fenton was
taken into custody by the police.
The police arrested Roy Fenton,
driver Of an express wagon. Fenton,
1T was learned, was carrying two fifty
pound boxes Of dynamite on his wagon
and did not know until he reached
the express office that one of the boxes
had dropped OIL. He hurried back in
the hope of picking it up, bnt the
electric car reached the box first.
The force of the explosion was ter
rifle, and the report was heard many
miles. Directly opposite the scene
was the Masonic Building every win
dow OF which was shattered, and
through one Of the windows a human
foot was blown. a score Of persons
within 4 hundred yards of the car
were knocked down and rendered deaf
by the conclusion.