A FEARFUL EXPLOSION. Seventy Men Tossed into the Air.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 268, 30 May 1888, Page 4

A FEARFUL EXPLOSION. Seventy Men Tossed into the Air.

Aii oxplo-ion oc-fMincfl at Chicago on Apnl 26, eh.it, pitched :-e\cnty people into the an, t hiowin^oneman hit}* fort, wiccked h;\en\vcu lai^e plaie-^lass w mdow-, ruined N^I.OOO uoi ih ol clothing, damaged a buildin" I') the e\lcm. ot ->1-)0,000, and caused a stampede anion<.> hundiod.s of people from the upper .stmeys of the adjacent tall Inuldm»s. Ltooouirod in the basement at Stale and .lackson-slieets. Queoi ly enough,nooncuas killed,although two or tliioo way bo Jtitall> injured. Two woiknien ueie drilling a lioio acrob.tlio street iioin the ba>cmont to make a conduit toi i lucti io wnob and accident- j ally puiu tuied a main. They lighted a e.indle to see what was the m.ittor, and the next mManl< (he\ and 6-eventy odd eloi k-. i\*m\ euhtoineis in the elotlunjj; stoic o\ 01 head, the m.vsM\e plato-pda.-s liont, and ;4iea'» piles ot iead\ made clothuii; weio nn.xod up in an almost inextiicablo mays, \\itli Inokcn tiinber> ,-md falling plaster, while people lor blocks mound thought an eartluinakc liad occurred and lushed to the .scene. The iiie ua& quickly extinguished by the department. Two Moikmon in the basement wore iound very badly injured, and three or toui elciks in the stoic abo\e arc injured internally. One ofr them, (ieorge Dunlop, when elie explosion oecuned, vas standing on a hot lire te^isier and was tlnown fifty toot, landinu on a pile ol His back is badly miuied.