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Show ONE MAN KILLED AND TWO FATALLY INJURED NEW YORK, Ocj. 7. Twcntj'-five men wcro impuriled tonight when tho explosion of a blow-lamp showered them with flaming gasoline whllo they wore cooped up in a small compart niont of a Standard Oil tank steamer in a drydock in Brooklyn. One man was burned to death, two probably will dio and several othors wero taken to u hospital. Tho men wero repairing the ruddor and had crowded to the dopths of tho hull down a thirty-foot ladder. Thero was a wild scramble for this only exit after tho explosion. The first to get out succuoded in beating out tho flnmos. After saving themselves thoy turned to the rcscuo of thoir comrades, com-rades, but Thomas Dewhurst, tho foreman, fore-man, wai dead whon dragged Up the laddor. Gustavo Kllys and Patrick Bartlett wore unconscious and may not survive. The vomoI caught fire but wos saved from ticrious damage. i |