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Show BRICK WALL BLOWN 100 FEET; GUESTS OF CLUB ARE THROWN IN PANIC HARTFORD, Conn., May 14. By an explosion at the Hartford club last night a part of the building was wrecked and a panic followed. One or two dinner parties were being held and the reception and reading-rooms were well filled. Suddenly there was a roar In the kitchen and the whole building seemed to lift. The water-boiler attached to the hugs range had exploded. The heavy brick wall was blown across the" lawn a hundred feet, barring the main entrance to the club. ..." The rooms were filled with men, who were thrown in heaps with tables, chairs, pictures and glasses. The supports to the floors were blown out, but fortunately they did not go down. Not a whole piece of glass or crockery was left In this part of the building and In the main part doors were blown off and elegant furnishings damaged. The main and private dining-rooms and the pantries and basement were a mass of wreckage. So far as known no one was seriously hurt. ' |