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Show tl . 'S TERRIFIC EXPLOSION IN Hi, ITALIAN QUARTER OF H NEW YORK CITY HH 4 ' HI Xow Yorlf' Sept. 23. Most of tho HH , 1500 tenants ot tho Barracks, n huge H"4 flvo Btory tenement on Elizabeth street, owned by tho Astor estate. HH w'ero thrown from their beds before HH I daybreak today when a powerful HH 1 bmb was exploded In tho doorwny HH ot an Italian, department store on tho HH ground floor. Tho explosion mado a H greater noise than any ever beforo HH Bot off In Elizabeth street, whero al- HH ' mbst ovory shop has beon blown HH Pon by a bomb within tho last two HH years. Tho police at hoadquartcrs HH 5 three blocks away, felt tho concus Hl IX ' slon nn'' the deskmen wero nearly HH " , shaken from tho'r chairs. They nt HH ; onco sont nil nvallablo reserves to HH I 1 tho spot, where tho streot was block- HH ed with a crowd of torrlflcd people HH ! Every window In the Ilarracks hn 1 HH tecn Bhattercd. H The front of tho department store HH hnd bcn blown in nnd tho Rtock, HJ Ina'do thrown Into a heap ot torn HJ t anl broken morchandlso. Qulllo Pv HH . eatl, tho ownor, arrived a few rain- HHj ,i uteB "ter the explosion. He said HH tnttt "0 had receWed no threstonlng ': J- Ihh'H .otters or otner warnsng and could not believe that tho bomb was meunt tor U'm. |
