Show TAMPERED WITH BATTERY Result Premature Blast Occurs Several Occucv oral People Aro Fatally Hurt Number of Others Injured Greenville Pa Feb SA fatal blasting blast-Ing accident occurred ou he new cutoff on the Bessemer Lake Erie railroad near Osgood two miles cast of here this evening One man Is missing and probably dead four lire fatally Injured and seven are suffering from fractured limbs ribs and Internal Injuries Supt Thomas McCanvllle of Scranton Pa sustained a fractured skull and C double dou-ble fracture of the left leg All the other Injured are Italians and their I names could not be learned ns they arc known to the contracting firm only by numbers 0 The scene of the accident was a 25 foot cut about 1000 feet from the new steel viaduct which Is being constructed by the American Bridge company The men had entered the cut with SupL McConvllle and were preparing to make C bla3t The charge hud Just been connected con-nected with the electrical apparatus when some one tampered with the battery bat-tery and set the blast off The men were burled beneath tonsof earth and rock |