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Show BathcrsNarrpvvlyEscape From the Runaway Projectiles New York. Aug. 19 A new peril has ben added to the dangers which must be bravoi by bathers on the metropolitan b'Viches that of being hit by runaway torpedoes escaping from naval vessels ai practice off shore. Such a projectile narrowly missed a group of New York bathers yesterday at Xoyaok. Ion.g Island. The toriudo was fired from a testing test-ing barce, anchored several miles off shore. Leaving the barge, the torpedo shot over I's ernirse, but suddenly It swened toward the bathers None nf them saw li com big until a man or shore wrnel them. Screaming with fright men and women scurried pell-niel! out of the path nf the pro j jK-tlle. The torpedo, which w-rts twenty feet long, contained no exjkk)slve, but the huge steel shell ru3hlng through ihe water would have destroyed anything in Its path. It sped on up the beach and buried its nose In the sand. |