SERIES OF ACCIDENTS. 
Manchester All Excited Friday and 
Saturday. 
Manchester was stirred last Fri- 
day and Saturday by a combination 
of accidents and exciting eyents 
such as has not occurred to disturb 
the quiet solemnity of the town for 
a number of years. The fire at J. 
W. Carter’s on School st. about 9 
o'clock Friday morning was follow- 
ed later in the day by the loss of 
little Miss Agnes Hyland, whose 
body was found later floating in 
Central pond, and Saturday fore- 
- noon a woods fire off the junction 
of Pine and Pleasant sts. resulted in 
a dynamite explosion which caused 
more or less damage and shook up 
the entire town and Saturday after- 
noon the crowning event of the 
chapter of events was when an auto- 
mobile and motor cycle come to- 
gether on Pine st. 
The Carter Fire. 
An account of the Carter fire was 
printer-in last week’s Breeze. The 
fire started from sparks from the 
chimney falling on the roof of the 
building and setting fire to the shin- 
gles. The damage amounted to 
about $150. and has since been set- 
tled by the insurance company. 
Child Drowned. 
Late Friday afternoon Agnes, the 
two-year-old daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Edward J. Hyland, was mis- 
sed from her home, 19 Brook st. A 
search was made for her all over 
the community and along toward 5 
o’clock the services of the police 
were sought. Chief Sulivan and 
Officer Bullock made a preliminary 
search and then called out some of 
‘the other officers. Chief Sullivan 
ealled on Rev. A. G. Warner, head 
of the Manchester Boy Scouts, to 
enlist their help and within half an 
_ hour the entire troop was at work. 
About 6.30 two of the Boy Scouts, 
Abbott Foster and Arthur Miguel, 
found the body of the little girl 
floating in Central pond in the rear 
of the Baptist church. Some ex- 
press the opinion that she might 
have fell into the brook and her 
body floated into the pond. Others 
think she might have tried to cross 
a little bridge near the entrance to 
the pond and fell off into the water. 
At any rate, there was great ex- 
citement prior to the finding of the 
body and had not the Boy Scouts 
met with success Chief Sullivan 
would have sounded a_ general 
alarm. The sympathy of the com- 
munity has been extended to Mr. 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
Mrs. K. B. Sherman 
Katherine O’Brien). 
MILLINERY 
44 Central St., - - - - - Manchester 
and Mrs. Hyland (the latter Miss 
Funeral ser- 
: ; DR. E. A. FRAKE 
vices were held Sunday at 12.30 p. SeTECE STE 
m. from the Hyland residence on 
Brook st. Interment was at Mont- 
serrat. 
Dynamite Explosion. 
A terrific explosion Saturday 
morning gave the western section 
of Manchester a severe shaking and 
the dwellers in the Pine st. district 
a bad fright. A woods fire had 
started off the corner of Pine and 
Pleasant st. extension, not far from 
where the Italian camp has been es- 
tablished for the laborers employed 
in building the sewer. Forest Fire 
Warden Peter A. Sheahan was on 
the job promptly with a good force 
of men, fire extinguishers, ete., and 
was busy putting out the fire when 
it was announced that a quantity 
of dynamite and caps used for the 
explosion of same was stored on a 
ledge not far from the camp and in 
close proximity to the fire. The an- 
nouncement was enough to scare 
everybody and a general rush mas 
made from the scene. Joseph Tom- 
asella was early on hand and did 
everything he could in the emer- 
gency. It seemed advisable to keep 
as far away from the dynamite as 
possible and a general alarm was 
given for the people living in that 
section. It was fully half an hour 
before the fire reached the dyna- 
mite and some 300 pounds of caps 
exploded. The dynamite, it is said, 
did not explode, but melted lke so 
much grease. The shock of the ex- 
plosion did considerable damage to 
two houses owner by the Tenney es- 
tate, breaking practically every 
light of glass in one of the houses 
and doing more or less other dam- 
age. Some slight damage was done 
to nearly all the houses in that vi- 
cinity, but for the most part it con- 
sisted of the breaking of a pane of 
glass here and there. At the resi- 
dence of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Henry 
Barbour a great many lights of 
glass were broken. The shock was 
felt as far away as the Denegre res- 
idence near the Beverly Farms line, 
where a large plate of glass was 
broken. Following the explosion 
the fire was put out without much 
difficulty. 
Fire Warden Peter A. Sheahan is 
REGISTERED PHYSICIAN 
244 CABOT STREET BEVERLY 
emphatic in his denial that the 
woods fire was in any way caused 
by the Italians who are making 
their home in the camp in that vi- 
cinity. Six or seven times last year 
he was called to the same place to 
put out woods fires. He believes the 
fire was caused by somebody drop- 
ping a match or some such thing as 
that, just as scores of other fires are 
being caused all over town. 
The first of the week Contractor 
Tomasello went all through the sec- 
tion where the shock was felt and 
with a committee of representative 
citizens settled the claims of per- 
sons whose property had been dam- 
aged by the explosion. Evidently 
there were people who believed that 
they could do their part in the 
spring clean-up campaign by get- 
ting as much for the damages as 
possible, for some of the estimates 
as to the worth of the property 
damaged might be considered a 
trifle high. Truly, real estate took 
a decided jump in value after the 
explosion. However, everything 
was settled satisfactorily to all con- 
cerned. Contractor Tomasello was 
fair and square with all. 
Autoist and Cyclist Crash. 
In an effort to avoid striking each 
other last Saturday afternoon Alex. 
ander Carter, driving a motor cycle 
down Pine st., and Alfred C. Need- 
ham, operating his automobile, came 
together, resulting in severe injur- 
ies for Mr. Carter and a badly dam- 
aged auto for Mr. Needham. The 
front of the motor cyele was wreck- 
ed. Carter, passing through Pine 
st. at rather high speed, crashed 
into the automobile, which was ecom- 
ing from the opposite direction. Mr. 
Needham was on the right side of 
the road and veered his machine 
onto the sidewalk to avoid the 
erash; in doing so he collided with 
a telephone pole. Although Carter 
was badly cut on the head after be- 
ing thrown from his eyele his in- 
juries will not prove serious. 
