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Show Fifteen Killed by Blast. Flshkill Landing, N. Y. Fifteen men, threo of them Americans, were killed Frldny by a premature explosion explo-sion of nltro-glycorlno in a tunnel that 1b to form part of tho local aqueduct which will carry water from tho As-hoknn As-hoknn dam In tho Catskllls to New York City. Five men were tonlbly mutilated, but wcro so near .the mouth of tho tunnel that they wero rescued alive. Tho other fifteen woro found beneath a mass of rock and debris, lltorally hanimored by the force of tho explosion Into a bleeding mass of heads, limbs and torsos. It is believed be-lieved that ono of tho workmen, carrying car-rying a torch, tripped and fell, Igniting Ignit-ing a fuso and setting off a serlos of charges of nltro-glycorlne. |