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force of which so stunning him as to knock him senseless for a few minutes. A tenement in Hughes's row, on 17th street, was also struck by a piece of iron and a hole driven entirely through it. We learn that a young man who was within range of the flying atoms at the time of the explosion was struck about his head with a flake of the boiler, injuring him so severely that he has since died. Several other persons are reported hurt, but we have been unable to find out who they are. Mr. George Johnson, the clerk of the establishment, was asleep at the time the fire broke out, and had barely time to make his escape alive. Mr. Baker's loss will not fall far short of $60,000, on which there was no insurance. --The building was owned by Franklin Stearns, Esq., and his loss will probably amount to between $75,000 and $100,000.--Mr. S. had a slight insurance in the Mutual Insurance office on one end of the building; but, in comparison with the loss he will sustain, it is not worth re