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Show TWO KILLED !N BLAST AT TiNTIG P. W. McGue, W. Pursell Lose Lives When Steam Shovel Hits Dynamite. P. W. MoQnay 36 years of age. and William Wil-liam Fursell. 24 years of nge, both of this city, were Instantly killed at 10 o'clock yealerday morning; In Knst Tin tic when a steam shove which they were operating as r-nglnee-r and rr.ine man. rexpertlvely, struck a missed i,o. and (..used an explosion. ex-plosion. The . men were In t he employ of f he CiiMstensen t"onstru'"tlon rompany of this city, which la doing the gradlm; work on w hatJs known ns the Iron Kim btLDs h of th- floshen V alley ijillroad, which will he extended to the Iron King and TlfitftO Stands rd rrtlnes. A day or so nlnad ff the steam :-hovt powder men hud hlaildd tH grad , nd if w.is a heavy charge of dynamite (hut had failed to explode that tkM steam shovH plowed Into. The hiK machine was wrecked and the engineer and crane man were thrown Into lb nlr wit'1 in debris. Their bodlOf were badly mutlh.tcd, RavafaJ Oibaf workmen were slightly injured At soon as posHlhlc, after the iccldanl the bodlai r'f M' ' ;"" nd Pureafl were taken to Kurekfi lo Im- t.re,.;ucd f.,r hurl.il. and will be brouglit to thta oity today Meftus resldel with his wife nl :w, ECaal HeeOfid South Street. !t nd l''ir-ell reHh. d with hla parents nt tlh South Klfth Kast , street MCPie tuid been with Ihe com , pany for gbOUt aavan veurs. while Purse U had only been employefj for abOtli ;i year. 4 |