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Show PASSENGERS IN PANIC ; : ON ELEVATED TRAIN Current on Third Rail Breaks Bounds and Performs Some Startling Antics. : t . ' , - NEW YORK. Feb. 12. The full power of the electric current conveyed by the third rail of the Ninth avenue elevated railroad broke bounds last evening with a blinding flash and, tearing off the Iron contact shoe of a train standing at the One Hundred and Sixteenth street station, followed the tracks under the train, struck and flashed along, the Ironwork of the platform with a deafening explosion explo-sion and, striking a heavy iron chain and breaking it into sections, flung It across the station. A panic ensued and men and women made a wild rush for the station exit from the platform, while the passengers on the train feasjed to attempt to leave the cars. Fortunately, no one was seriously hurt. A long section of the broken chain, while hot from the current which had passed through It, gave a flash In front of the face of one of the men on the station platform, not touching him, but searing his flesh with Intense heat as it passed. |