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Show Fatal Sfeml Itock Explosion. Joiinsburg, 27. This morning, at Cahoon Falls, si miles north of this place, Frank Johnson . fit Wuduam, Ms., Chas.- -Putney ' f"Hil. N. H., and Jos. Ueou t, - -nuoburg, were excavating for a r iifl. and placed some rendrojk tou'undor a stone in the basement. While they were at work on the nraL floor the explobive igniud and blew the building, build-ing, twenty feet tquare, into kindling kind-ling wooil, and hurled tho men skyward. sky-ward. Hcon was denuded of clothing and Mini with splinters and may die. Johnson And Putney will recover. A falling derrick instantly killed E. W. Hawkins, one of tho proprietors of the Jubusburg granite company. Hawkins Haw-kins wag o0 years old, . and recently married. |