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Show GENERAL. Ltiiouiiitlrr Explosion. Huutimtton, 1'a., 27. A locomotive on the Huntington and Broad Top railroad exploded this evening. Jerry Wertz, engineer, was blown to pieces and a boy named Lbiniel Jleck was fatally fa-tally injured. Extrusive l-'ire, ' Scranton, Pa., 27. An extensive fire occurred iu Wyoming Co. this morning, which destroyed some twenty hubdings of Benshaw, Billings and Phillips, and the railroi.fl stores and many of the principal houses. The estimated loss U frlOU.OOO. Another Terrible Cyclone in Culm. Xew York, 2S Information is received re-ceived that a cye'one, almost equal in violence to that which swept over the eastern portion of Cuba on the 7th, devastated the western portion of t he-island, he-island, and nineteen or twenty towns and villages have been leveled with the ground. The grain crops are destroyed and immense damage is done to properly. prop-erly. Keports of loss of life and shipping ship-ping are coming in. Telegraph communication com-munication and travel with the west i.-yet i.-yet suspended. |