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Show BLASTER EXPLAINS SUBWAY DISASTER Man's Story Is Believed and No Charge Has Been Placed Against Him. NEW YORK, Sept. 23. The work of clearing up the section of the new Seventh avenue subway, in which a cave-in cave-in yesterday caused the death of seven persons and the injury of nearly 100 others, proceeded rapidly today. No additional ad-ditional bodies were found. Reports from the hospitals were that most of the injured in-jured would recover. August Mezza,notte. the blaster who directed di-rected the explosions generally believed to have used the collapse of the wooden pavement, and who disappeared immediately imme-diately after the accident, today appeared at the district attorney's office, accompanied accom-panied by counsel. He described how three positions were prepared for dynamite dyna-mite blasting. The first blast, set off at 7:50 a. m., he said, was a success. Before setting the second blast, Mez-zanotte Mez-zanotte said, he took the usual precautions, precau-tions, including the sending' out of flagmen flag-men to stop traffic, and when this was done he gave the signal that the blast be fired. "In three or four seconds," Mezzanotte related, "the deck (wooden pavement) began be-gan to go. It started where the blast went off and rolled away like a wave. The street then sank in, but no debris was blown In the air." The scene paralyzed his senses, Mez-zanotte Mez-zanotte said. He thought scores had been killed when the street car fell Into the excavation. When he recovered he ran from the place. District Attorney Perkins was Impressed Im-pressed with the sincerity of Mezzanotte's story and did not order him placed under arrest. He will appear whenever he is wanted by the authorities, he said. Coroner Feinburg announced tonight that the inquest will take place Saturday. |