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Show FATAL EXPLOSION. A Puckusc ol Dj uuuiite Cioi's OH' at a Steamship Quay at Itremerhnvon Grcrtl Loss of 1. lie. XW Vnrl.-, It. TUo ..jj.-ulo Oil. orth German Lloyds, of this city, have received the following dispatch from tho company's office in Bremen : A great explosion has occurred al Bremerhaven of a cose of dynamite on the quay, belonging to a passenger's pas-senger's baggage. Many lives nre lost. The steamer Mosd is alightly damaged, but we expect to sail her to-morrow. Fifty persons arc reported re-ported killed and a largo number injured. in-jured. The Mosel was to have taken the p;vssengers of the wrecked steamship steam-ship Dcutschland, of the same line. London, 11, 4 p.m. It is not yet knovrn if the killed and wounded were pa;sengera by tho steamer Mosel, as the disaster was not caused by the explosion of the boiler of the steam tug but by au explosion on the wharf. New York, 11. Oatrichs &. Co., agents of the North German Lloyd's line, to which the steamship Mosd belongs, doubt the truth of the report that those killed by the explosion at Bremerhaven were passengers, and say that there might have been some workmen on tho quay or a large number of the friends of passengers about to sail on the Mosd waiting to sec them ofl. In that case no names of the dead will be sent to the office in this city. Two steamboats are used by the North German Lloyds line at Bremerhaven, tho Lloyd for passengers and the Simeon for luggage. lug-gage. II any passengers were injured in-jured they are supposed to have been on a tug which was to convey them , from the quay at Bremerhaven to the , steamer at the, quay which is set J apart exclusively lor passengers and 1 luggage, and it appears that the cases of dynamites were about to be shipped as luggage. Tho passengers of the Dent. -ich land who were- rescued could not haft- been - among the number who are injured, as they were not taken to Bremen. They were to take the .Mo-id when. she stopped at Southampton, and should the Mosd sail to-morro they will be called for on Tutsday next. The company do not allow the shipment of explosive or dangerous materials oi any kind on their vessels So careful ro they in this respect that nothing but linseed oil is permitted to boused in lamps for illuminating the saloons of the steamers. |