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Show THE POPE WAS PRAYING, WHEN THE AWFUL EXPLOSION AT hOML SHOOK HE VA1 ICAM. rnnl Art Triimrii Destroyed TU Froncb KmbuBSHdurSHelilly Injured -( eime of tliM TerrlhlM IMnatber, i.u.n Nut Vet Known. Ibi'tf. April 2 1. The explosion yesterday yes-terday which caused heavy damage and loss of life, created great alarm at the Vatican. All tho windows of the pone's library were broken and a nuin-lior nuin-lior of priceless relics destroyed. The stained glass windows of St. Peters and Si, Pauls wi re damaged and many relics rel-ics ties! ro.wd. hi. Paul's louireh is closed v!u!.' i lie damage Ik being repaired. re-paired. The destruction wro'crjit i irreparable, ir-reparable, us the valuable wo As of art which were destroyed cannot be replaced. re-placed. Sometime "will elapse before the full amount of damage will bo known. It now transpires that tho pope was engaged in prayer w hen the explosion shooK the Vatican building. So severe was the shock that his holiness would have fallen had not one of the servants caught him. Investigation shows that the explosion was caused by tho accidental ignition of some shell capsules. A uuuiber of the injured have died. King Humbert is today calling at the hospitals and visiting the wounded people. The king's sympathetic action in conveying the wounded in bis own carriage to tlie hospitals yesterday and in visiting tho wounded today is highly appreciated by the populace of this city. Among those hurt by the accident was Billot, the Trench ambassador, who was slightly injured by lalliog glass. |