Show I KYIERRIIYIAC BLOWN UpS i I Fifteen Hundred Pounds of Dynamite Used on Wreck Santiago de Cuba April 7 Fifteen hundred pounds of dynamite were used yesterday in blowing up the forward superstructure of the sunken United States colliery Merrimac which has long Impeded the entrance to the harbor har-bor The explosion was heard plainly In the city live miles away Divers Immediately Im-mediately descended and found forty feet of clear water over the forward portion O the wreck Port Cant Irvin will begin tomorrow to place mines aft I 1 which ho expects to explode in a week I thus completely clearing the harbor entrance en-trance I Yesterdays Incident was highly spectacular spec-tacular Residents on Smith Key adjacent ad-jacent to the wreck left the Island fearing that their houses would be demolished de-molished The overlooking hills were lined with people and large numbers of pleasureseekers encircled the wreck at a safe distance When the electric button was touched a pyramid of water wa-ter rose forty feet and the surface was immediately covered with i wrecl < enId e-nId tons of dead 11sh Tho launches and yachts returned to the city laden with souvenirs of thc wreck |