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Show MANHOLE EXPLOSION STARTLES GOTHAMITES N'I-:W YORK, Dec. 0. Hundred-' of theatergoers were thrown into a panic ton: ght bv an explosion of sewer ga s in 1 1-...' "Whitp Light district, which blew the tops off a score of manholes-, sending send-ing blue flames leaping above the pave rnent. Police reserve had to be summoned sum-moned to control tl.o frightened orA.N. Hundreds of iiersons. in adjoining buildings ruVned into tl'.e street4! believing believ-ing that an eart hnua lie hal occi rred. Windows were shattered for bhu-ks and e'octric lights t i; rougliout the region re-gion were extinguished. The ring'ug of private burgiar ulavms irihied to t'nc coniu'-ion. A; Kroadway and Tweiity-seventl: Tweiity-seventl: hTreet a vide :iC appeared 1 in t!..j -idewalk. |