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Show EXPLOSION KILLS FIVE,. WRECKS TOWN PITTSBURG, Pa.. Dec. 3.- Captain E. A Swanoy and four membors of the crew of the towboat Diamond were killed today in the explosion of the boat's boiler while she was lying In the Ohio river off Avalon, six miles south. Five others were injured, two ratally. The boat sank. The cause of the explosion has not been learned. Pisces of machinery were hurled over Into the houses of Avalon, tearing tear-ing away chimneys and landing in the streets, while the roof of the Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania station was wrecked. Hundreds of windows were broken. Tho dead:' CAPTAIN E. A. SWANKY. RALPH, HAftAK, watchman. THOMAS MERSHOM, fireman. THOMAS CUNNINGHAM, fireman. JAMES FRIEL, deck hand. Only the body of Frlel was round, it hiving been thrown onto a coal barge nearby |