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Show mm of gIs sNUFfs " OUT A SCORE OF LIVES Accident Oseurred In a Fifty-foot Ceep Excavation, Workmen Being Burled Untler' tons of Earth, V" New York. Twenly-flvo persons Irmt their lives In ittt explosion ot gas vhlch tore up n groat section of Gold rtraot, Brooklyn, on Friday. It Is definitely defi-nitely known that fifteen persons wero burled under tho hundreds ot tons nt earth and timber thrown Into the nlr nnd ten more tiro reported as missing. Tho explosion occurred In a fifty-foot fifty-foot deep oxcuvnllon that had been made In Gold street between York and Kront stroets, whoro n water 'main mis being laid. Tho gas main recently sprang n leak nnd In a mnnner unknown un-known a spark camej In contnet with the escaping gas. Immediately thoro was n terrific oxploslon which lifted iho surface, for halt a block In both llreetlons and shot dirt, paving stones pud debris Into tho air. When tho smoke and dust cleared twuy It was seen tlio street had been cpened from doorstep to doorstop over tn area of nearly a block. Tho loos-i loos-i nod earth nnd debris had fallen Into the excavation, burying the score of laborers who wore at work wheir tho Occident happened. Great tongues ot Unities shot from crevices and beside geysers of wnter lenped Into tho nlr l-om tho water main that had been il uttered by the oxploslon. Two bodlcH were sticking out of tho wreck-rge. wreck-rge. , Gold .street was crowded with rchool children when tlio explosion cccurred, nnd that scores were not killed or Injured was remarkable. A woman) nnd three children wero almost al-most ovor tho excavation when tho earth crumbled under their reel nnd Ihey were swept down Into the hole under tons or wreckage. Two other children wore on tho opposite sldo or tho street when tho sldownlk caved In nnd thor lost their lives. |