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that same Monday morning. As I looked out of the window while hastily dressing I saw in the glare of that morning light my Brother Frank opening the gate which led into the Park opposite while a long line of people and waggons loaded with their furniture and belongings extended back of us up Munroe St. We were all busy in the house packing trunks and gathering together things which we valued. About six oclock there was a great boom and distant trembling and the gas went out. We knew then that the gas works had blown up. Once while I was standing in the open Carriage door of the stable looking at the hurrying crowd that was surging eastward towards the Park, I saw a man peering back at me into the stable, upon asking him what he was looking for? He replied that he was a small Jeweller on