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Show AN AWFUL EXPLOSION. A Train Leaded with llynamlle Blown I'P .Ten, Me a lulled. TAitRm.wN. X. V., May 10. At 11:25 this morning a train containing a large quantity of dynamite was blown up short distance from the depot. The shock was terriitc ami tho entire train was demolished. Two Americans aud eight Italians were instantly killed and a largo number of people injured. The remains of the dead were picked up .tint taken to the station. It is impossible impossi-ble to tell ut nreseut what was the cause of the accident. The dynamite was loaded on a flat car anil was being taken to Irvington. '1'lie fireman of tho locomotive of the train whs blowu With the tender of tho locomotive into the- river. The shock' of tin: explosion was felt for miles in all direction, and it is impossible to indicate indi-cate the extent of the damage in Tarry town and vicinity. The ground was literally tunnelled by the lorca of the explosiou. A gang of Italians was working hero preparing tracks ami making Mime improvements on tho road. A freight car containing a large quantity of dynamite dyn-amite was stood upon a side track not far from them. Some of this explosive had been removed from the car and placed alongside it nud the explosion of a blast "set it off. Tho explosion siiouN. 10c gitiumi nun in rnFvuiuuK and tore up everything. Tho air was tilled with Hying debris and fragments of human bodies. I'eople a block away were thrown to the ground by the concussion. When the smoke cleared away there was a sickening spectacle. Thirty one men, principally Italians, lay upon the , ground. The car was no where to be seen. Portions of the trucks were trucks were thrown hundreds of feet away and not even the heavy wheels remained re-mained on the track. Tortious of the road bed and track were blowu away great holes dug in the ground. As soon as it was known that the danger was over. thousands of people nihad to the scene. Doctors were called from all parts of the tovf: It was found tn at only site men wCre killed outright and twenty wonndt. No names could he obtained in the etf citemeut that existed. The crowd of people devoted themselves to moving the dead aud wounded to the depot where they were laid out in rows. Those killed were horribly mutilated, being literally blown to pieces. The wounded meu were shockingly injured, some were minus their legs, others had their arms blown away, and still others were riisjoembered in an equally horrible horri-ble way. A number of the wounded will probably die. Most of thpfoceakf little or no Knglish. "' Travel is entirely blocked between ! Tarrytown and Irvington. ail trains have been forced to come to a standstill stand-still on each side of the accident. Stir-peons Stir-peons and doctors are attending the wounded on the hpot. The. wildest excitement ex-citement prevails, i , |