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Show BLOWING ABLIZZARD. Some Western Weather Which Rather Surprises the Xew Yorkers. Mr. McUinuis Is Missing Since the Explosion Yesterday. Fire Sailors Drowned In the North River Through an Accidental Collsion. The Great Explosion Near New York. New Yobk, February 4.-At the time of tbe explosion at the new aqueduct there was m the Rhanty 250 pounds of what is known as torcit. THE BUILDING WAS BLOWN INTO FRAGMENTS, It being difficult to find a piece as much as a foot long. Fr Agments of stone were found seven hundred feet away. Three boardins shanties at some distance away, in which about forty laborers, mostly negroes and Italians, were sleeping, were wrecked and t he occupants tTNCEEEMONIOTJSLI TUMBLED OCT OF THEIH - BEDS. Nothing except the flimsy character of the structures saved a serious loss of life. Only pne person was seriously hurt. McGinnis has not been seen since, nor has any trace of his remains been discovered. is not believed be-lieved that he could have been so utterly annihilated an-nihilated that not even a blood stain could be discovered, and it is therefore suspected that he was unhurt, and fearing he would be held responsible for the calamity, ran away. Ranged at a distance of a mile or a mile and a half from thescene of the explosion are MANY BEAUTIFUL AND COSTLT RESIDENCES, - Including those of ex-Mayor Edson and H. B. Claflin: all of them more or less severely felt the shock. Panes of glass were broken,, crockery was rattled, pictures were thrown from the walls, and in some instances persons were thrown from their beds. The general impression for miles around was that of an earthquake. It was felt all over Long Island, and the shock was much more severe than that of the Hell Gate explosion. |