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Show Bomb Explodes Wrecking Wreck-ing a New York Building ' New York, Feb. 2. A bomb placed on the doorstep of a tenement at 401 East Eighty-third street, exploded at 1 o'clock this morning and shook the five-story building to Its foundations, sending 175 panic-stricken tenants flying, fly-ing, half-lothed, to the street. A barber bar-ber shop on the ground floor was completely com-pletely wrecked, fragments of barber chairs, shaving mugs and) plate glass being picked up later at points more than a block away. Two Italians, who occupied an apartment directly over the barber shop, were thrown from their beds and carried bodily through a four-inch partition. Both were seriously injured. in-jured. The explosion, according to the police, po-lice, was evidently tho work of some Black Hand group, although no one could be found In the building who would admit having received threatening threat-ening letters. Two policemen were standing within sight of the wrecked building when the explosion occurred. The fact that they saw no one running run-ning from tho place indicates that the bomb was equipped with a time-fuse. The presence of the officers averted what otherwise would havo proved a disastrous panic in the mad rush of the tenants from the building. The two plunged Into the thronged hallways hall-ways and compelled the frightened men and women to make their way out in orderly fashion |