Inter-Mountain Republican | 1906-04-07 | Page 1 | It Blew up the Streets

IT BLEW UP THE STREETS Six Lifts 1 Injures E lon und ull Damage c Properly New York April G. G lh With a 1 roar which and a n succession of Jf f c explosions resembled a cannonade gasoline fumes Cumes n in sewers for or more than six sL cl city blocks sewer street In the vicinity of Twenty first and Ninth avenue u blew more than a score of oC manhole covers into the air all this afternoon causing the Injury Injun of or half a dozen persons tearing up streets hat and doing damage to property estimated at Dozens of oC windows windows win Will dows were ivero blown out by b the concus concus- sion slon M Men Melt n and women were ivere thrown to the ground and tenants In the lie apartment houses and all stores of oC the district rushed to the tho street In terror It was the second time within a few weeks I that the district has hac had this experience For half hat an all hour hoU after the neighborhood neighborhood neighbor neighbor- tho tue explosion occurred hood was In a state stale of oC excitement Women Wo We- men hood ru rushed around tho the streets with wih children in their heir arm arms crying hysterically cally cully and several so eral labored under the Impression that an earthquake had hat taken place