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Show TAMPERED WITH BATTERY. Kosult, Fremature Blast Occuro Several Sev-eral People Aro Fatally Hurt, Number of Others Injured. Oreenvllle, Pi, Feb 8 A fitnl blasting blast-ing accident necurred on he new cutorf on the lleascmer .t Iiko Krle railroad near Osgood two miles east or here, thla evening. One mm Is missing nnd probnhls deil four are fatally Injured nnd seven are suffering from rractured llmbi, ribs and IntermI Injuries. Supt Thomas McCamllle or Scranton. Pa, Mistnlmd a rractuied skull nnd j. double dou-ble fiacture or the IcU leg. All the other Injured are Italians, and their n imes coul I not be learned ns they are known to tho contracting firm only by numbers The siene of the accident waa a 2V root (lit nlrttit looo reet rrom tho new steel viaduct which Is being constructed lis the American Hrldge rompans'. The men had em. red the cut with Rupt. McConvllle nni were preparing to make a blast The rhatge had Just been connected con-nected with the electrical nppaiatus, when some one tampered with the battels bat-tels nnd set the blast off Iho men were burled beneath tens of earth and rock |