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Show oo ALMOST ANOTHER DYNAMITE BLOW UP New York. Feb. G. The New Jersey Jer-sey officials who are Investigating the water front explosion which last week cost thirty-odd lives and destroyed a ! million dollars' worth of property, learned this morning that New York harbor nnd the steamship piers along ' the lower part of tho Njrth river were threatened ycslerday afternoon I with a repetition of that disaster. Loaded with more rtian 20,000 pounds of dynamite, a barge broke from her moorings near tho Statue of , Liberty late in the afterSron and drifted down the harbor, threatening the destruction of a forest of shipping . at anchor there. An hour ater she- ' broke loose, she collided with a crash against the Ilernlston, a British tramp steamer, but the bump was not severe enough to explode the "dynamite. "dyna-mite. A few minutes later a tug boat got a tow line to the bargo and towed her to an anchorage far down tho bay. |