EXPLOSION OF ONE HUNDRED TONS OF EXPLOSIVES
PERSONS INJURED AND HOUSES WRECKED SHOCK FELT~FOR SIXTY . MILES Received March 4,10.55 p.m SSr NewYorlr, March 4 The explosion of a store of dyuatni c injured twenty workmen on the . Penasylvannia Railway tunnel under the Hudson river at New Jersey. ] Fhe shock was felt for a distance of , sixty miles. ] London, March 4 The "Daily Mail" states that the explosion violently shook an entire < irea greater than New York. One ( [talian was killed. He dropped some aot ashes in a case of dynamite, 1 igniting, spread to the mag- i izine at the mouth of the tunnel, t sontaining one hundred tons of ex- t plosives. One hundred workmen who vere in the tunnel had a most mar* i relloud escape. An enormous hple i vaa torn in the ground, and dozens >f buildings were wrecked. \
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Colonist, Volume XLIX, Issue 11876, 5 March 1907, Page 4
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143EXPLOSION OF ONE HUNDRED TONS OF EXPLOSIVES Colonist, Volume XLIX, Issue 11876, 5 March 1907, Page 4
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