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Show TEN-FOOT TIDAL WAVE. Ulg-ht Million Gallant of Water Turned Loo.e In New York City. New York, Deo. 14. Tlio great steel gas tank of the Consolidated Gas com-puny com-puny at avenuo A and Twentieth street, tho largest of Its kind in tho world, collapsed at 5:30 p. ra. It wont down with a crash nnd roar llko a great explosion. Masonary nnd granite gran-ite blocks and bricks to the hclghth of fifty feot fell and loosened from bond-ago bond-ago 8,000,000 gallons of wator, which deluged tho streets nnd In a ten-foot ten-foot tidal wave carried death nnd destruction through tho surrounding neighborhood. Up to tho present tlmo thrco dead bodies havo been recovered, re-covered, seventeen people who wero seriously Injured arc being cared for, while half a dozen aro roportcd missing. |