Show BLOWN TO IN NEW YORK three men reduced to atoms and seven others injured by explosion of dynamite in an excavation for a building new dec IS three men were lion n to piece seven others were more or ies seriously hurt and he occupants of fashionable hotels and residences in the vicinity of fifth avenue aid thirty fourth street were startled today by an explosion of dynamite in an excavation for the new building fragments of the bodies ot the dead were scattered over in area of hundreds of feet and it was hours before the exact number of victims ot the accident could be determined the explosion was caused by unintentionally a heavy charge of dynamite which had been placed in a drill hole in ledge ot rock several days ago and which defied all efforts to explode at the time today the workmen started to re drill the hole with no thought of the deadly charge which it concealed there were eighty men in the excavation at ahe time but only a few of them near the loaded hole when the steel drill plunged into the anicka of dynamite there was a terrific roar the air was filled with of stone fragments of human flesh pieces of limber dirt ind smoke scarcely a irace was found in the excavation of three men who had stood almost directly aver the hole and when the shohe cleared away seven others who had range of the concussion were stretched out on the ground faces and bodies torn and seared the soend of the explosion brought guests hurrying from the As torla hotel almost directly across the street from the scene of the disaster and from many similar in the vicinity portions of the body of an italian were found in about thirty fourth street nearly feet from tha point where the exploded and another body was found on top of a tool house more than feet away fragments of the third body were found tar from the excavation jacob metzger superintendent of post and mccord contractors and prank anderaon superintendent tor the construction company x ere arrested soon alter the accident OB a charge ot criminal negligence |