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Show Powder Explosion. Potldville, Pa., 17. During a storm about 4 o'clock this afternoon, the powder magazine of H. A. Weldy fc Co., containing 1,100 kegs, waa atruck by iightning. A terrible explosion followed fol-lowed demolishing the magazine, scattering debris in an easterly direction, direc-tion, and making a gap in the ueitihboring woods fifty feet wide, killing three of a picnic party 'and more or leea injuriog several. Many houses in the neighborhood are badly damaged. Several catlle are so injured they had to bo kille.!. |