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Show SIX FIREMEN KILLED BY BOILER EXPLOSIOxX NJ'IW YURK. Oct. 20. A boiler cx-lilosion cx-lilosion killed six iircmen uutribfc, fatally fa-tally 1(701111(10(1 two others and threw 2000 women and girls and halt1 as many men into a pniue today at. the bagging and rope plant o tho Americau Manufacturing Manu-facturing company at Green Point, across llio cast river. Circumstances surrounding tho ex plosion arc a mystery. "When tho big boiler in tho two-story brick ' warehouse ware-house attached to tho plant blovr up there ivas a rush for the doors and many of tho weaker ones were trampled underfoot. All the litiio the building was shaking, as another boiler blew up with earthquake a-ioIcuco. When picked tip, tho bodies of tho sis lircmeu wore terribly mutilated. |