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Show Black Hand Continues to Pursue Its Victims , in New York New York. Nov. 29 Tho most densely populated block in New York City, a solid square of tenement in Elizabeth street. In the he-art of the East Side Sicilian colony, was tho scene early this morning of a bomb explosion which wrecked five stores nnd smashed COO tenement house windows. win-dows. Although many thousand tcr-trifled tcr-trifled foreigners wejre routed from Ibelr beds by the explosion, the police could find no oiio who had suffered serious bodily harm. The greaUt excitement was in "The Barracks," one of tho largest tenement houses in the Kasl Side and in a cheap lodging house adjoining. Uoth buildings are on Elizabeth street, between Prince and Houston streets, in a district familiar to all settlement settle-ment worKers and readers of tales of East Side life. . : The bomb exploded in tho doorway of the "Th Bella Trtna Crla," a saloon sa-loon at 283 Elizabeth street, where the leaders of the Sicilian colony met ldghtly to discuss matters nf importance import-ance over thi chlantl and black cigars. The saloon h-id closed for the night, an hour or so te.fore the windows win-dows were as dark as the street In front when the explosion came, a little lit-tle before davbreak. Every hottle and glass in tho saloon was broken and the front was smashed in. Bricks, mortar, .plaster and splintered wood were heaped breast high on the shattered shat-tered floor. Across the street, tho I f rex-cry store of Nucclo Brothers w as almost aa badly damaged, and three i other siores sufferod severely. J From all directions, dwellers sur-l rounding tenements came tumbling panic-stricken into the street. Only one person within a block of the sa- ( loon, slept through it all. and that I was Ilarba Carmella, the bartender, who was still snoring soundly In his bunk in the rear of the saloon when a patrolman climbed over the wreck age to awaken him. After an hour's hard work by tho police, the frightened tenement dwel- i lers recovered their composure and began to return to their homes. Brok- j en glass was everywhere nnd a new-danger new-danger was found in the ga6 escaping) fiom countless ruptured connections, j An emergency repair gang came in j response to a police call and turnel off all the gas in the block. The proprietor of the "Bella Trina ! Crla." had left his saloon only twenty minutes before the lorub went off. , Whi n the explosion occurred, he was ; talkins to two policemen at a street , corner a block away. As one of the I l.'Bilers In the Sicilian colony, he is said t have been a target for Black J Hand letters for many years past. |