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Show VICTIMS OF DYNAMITE. i Ten Men Accidentally Killed White Working on Panama Canal. Colon. A giant blat ot dynamlto was prematurely exploded In the canal ca-nal workings at Has Obispo on 'Saturday, 'Satur-day, Ten men wore killed and fifty Injured. Has Obispo cut Is about thirty miles from Colon, and tho shock of tho explosion waa distinctly felt hero. Numerous reports am current ns to the causes of tho accident, but tho official of-ficial version from Cnlebra, which gives an esllmalo of ten killed and fifty wounded, states that during the loading of the last hole of lite nlast thn dynamllo In thin rut wnH discharged dis-charged nnd tho remaining twenty-two twenty-two tonfc wero exploded by concussion. concus-sion. Thn holes had not been connected con-nected electrically, as the discharge of tho blast was set for 6 o'clock In tho afternoon, Tho last holo was Doing Do-ing londed under supervision of ono of tho most efficient powder men In tbo omploy ot tho commission. |