The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-09-22
TrOlleO Horror in MelrOSe,
Mass, Last Night.
BOX ON EXPRESS WAGON
Fell Into Street and Heavily Loaded
Car Struck It-Thirty Others
Injured by the Ex-
plosion

/ Melrose, Mass.s sept. 2S-- ile wreck
Of trolley car BY colliding with box
containing fifty pounds Of dynamite at
Wyoming last night resulted in the
death Of nine persons and injury to
over thirty The dead are:
Dr. Malcolm s. Mcclellan Of Melrose
Highlands
Il. A. Haynes, wife aud three year old
daughter OF AieIrose.
Winfield Rowe, motorman, OF Sau-
gus.
Louise Teacles of Maiden.
Mrs Stillman CROUCH Of Stoneham
Z. A. Stowe OF South Boston
Fred Marshall Of Boston,
Eighteen Of the injured are III the
two hospitals here, and several are on
the dangerous list. The most seriously
hurt are:
Mrs. Mary Ebert Conway Of Milford,
compound fracture Of both legs and one
foot amputated
! F. A. Waterhouse Of Melrose, foot
Iamputated
1 j. D. Patten OF Alelrose, both ankles
broken and scalp torn off.
G III. Andrews Of Melrose, both legs
broken and one amputated.
DR.. Henry G. Herrie Of Wakefield,
fractured leg and rib.
Mrs Annie Flaherty Of Mablen, com
pound fracture of both legs.
So great was the force of the explosion
| that all but ten feet of the rear end of
the ear was blown into small bits, while
windows within a radius of quarter of
a mile were shattered.
The immediate vicinity of the Incident
presented a fearful spectacle. The
ground was strewn with legs, arms and
portions Of the bodies Of those who had
been killed. while shrieks and groans
came from the writhing forms of the in
iured.
The ear contained mostly men on their
way to their homes in this city, the acei-
dent taking place only quarter of 4
mile from Meirose Center Within few
minutes a great crowd had collected and
the injured we're tenderly cared for until
physicians from Alelrose and nearby
towns reached the scene.
For more than three hours the greatest
confusion existed, and it was difficult 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 at once began an investiga
tion aud arrested Roy Fenton, driver OF
the express wagon, It was learned that
Fenton was on his way to the local ex-
press Office. He had placed on the tail
board Of the express wagon two 50-pound
boxes Of dynamite consigned to the city
of Melrose He did not know until he
reached the express office that one of the
boxes had dropped Off He hurried back
toward Main street in the hope Of pick
ing It up, but the electric car reached the
box first.
Directly opposite the scene was the
Masonic bnilding, every window Of
which was shattered. and through one
of the windows a human form was
blown There were more than score
Of people within 100 yards Of the car,
nearly all Of whom were knocked down
and deafened by the coHcussion Glass
and splinters were blown in every di-
rection, and few Of the passersby es-
capped some sort Of wound
! When they recovered their senses,
those who were not dazed, were appail-
cd by the shrieks and groans from the
ruins of the shattered car II seemed
as If the entire ground was covered
with the Writhing forms Of the injured
and the mangled bodies of the dead.
Within a short time a large force of po-
! lice was ON the scene, and every doctor
in the city, "a well as Others in sun
rounding cities and towns had been no
titled.
Every sort of vehicle was pressed in-
to service and the work of removing the
injured to the hospitals was begun
Within two hours, more than score
had been treated but of the number
three soon suteumbed to their injuries.
There was but little left OF the wreck
ed eur The entire front portion was
blown to pieces, the middle portion
wrecked, but the rear was fairly intact
Conductor Blanchard who was on the
rear platform, was not injured at all
The controller Of the car was hurled
against the Masonic building, forty feet
away, while pieces Of the car were
picked up at distance of more than an
eighth Of a mile
The force Of the explosion practically
tore of and hurled in al directions the
front portion Of the ear, and it was here
that the deaths occurred Farther back
IN the ear the sides We're blown out and
the roof tumbled IN, pinning dawn many
of the passengers. On the rear platform
the conductor and four on five others es-
capped without injury.
One of the passengers on the car sail
that il seemed as ii the ear was lifted
bodily into the air and then couling down
with . laundering crash, smashed To
pieces.
The paving stones beneath the cal
were ground into powder by the force OF
the explosion and the car rails curled up.
The hole in the ground however. was
shallow, the force Of the explosion being
expended upward and outward fhe