Show KILLS TELVE MEN Brooklyn Street Torn to Pieces For Rods Rod and Victims Buried Under the Debris WERE MAKING EXCAVATION Oas lm This lx Up cr i ml I t Now en York Nov 20 Twelve men 1101 ard reported Uj ty ha killed by tim the ex cx explosion of 01 a gas math main In an excava excavation tion H at Gold Geld and 1101 Front streets Brook Brooklyn Brooklyn lyn today Tile The explosion tore the tho to pieces on either side and tho 12 men loon wiio in an nit excavation for sewer fewer ppe were buried under the debris and amu believed to have boon beci smothered to death Fred Trout who lived near the icene lost his In attempting to a woman who was passing through Gold treat at lit the tho time of the explosion and fell into the Trout wan caught by uy the flames gas main and rousted alive The woman was VIlS dragged out of ot the trench and saved by h a boy Thu excavation was tn III be nearly 10 foot and as Its till laborers removed the he earth ho walls halt had heel boon shored up UI by large timbers With Charles a ti city Inspector of sewers sowers over overs s work the tue men were at ut the bottom bottoni of the thu trench when un Ito accumulation a bt bf gas front from a main which hind had been broken during tite course of thy Work exploded with Tho timbers tl were ripped II hued away and tho high dim walls nails toppled over and his hla men loan A large water also ald broken by till the for e bf the tho explosion nd a perfect of itt water bogan to tt spurt iii tho of wreck wreckage age Almost side by with reared the flames lomnes from tho tue gun gas broken ii main bath Firemen and it roni the city walor froni time gas jas worked desperately tie i together In on effort to check lie how flow of bf gas and water vater and to relieve tho th men who had been Imprisoned There little hope however that any Imy t cf f those ilose wild willi haLl boon at work OLk at thia ho bottom of oh the could have havo escaped death ileath Their bodies aie az a believed to be lie burled bulled under tons of or earth The explosion was by ilY scenes of Intense excitement Every building for foi blocks around been licOn severely shaken A J church and school received r full force of the shock j ip crowd which Hocked to the school |