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Show pICAGO SHAKEN BY HUGE DUST EXPLOSION I ML A s , MOTHER VISITS BOY WHO KILLED 'DOUBLE' WARSAW, Ind. March 19. Mrs. Lydla Decker, mother of Virgil Decker, Deck-er, 18-year-old boy, who I as signed a confession ln which be declared that he alone was responsible for the death of LeRov Eovett, his chum, was permitted per-mitted for the first time today to visit her son since his an est Tuesday Mrs Dcrker wits accompanied by .Mrs. C. B Moon, wife of the county .sheriff Tho boy who fold Mrs Moon, according ac-cording to her story of events leading up to tbe confession, that his only reason for assaulting I,oveU was that "the devil told me to do It and I Just did It." met his mother with no dls-plaj dls-plaj of emotlou. ' Don't worry, mother, It's done and I don't know why I did it.' was his greeting. She remained with the boy only a short time. ONE DEAD AND I FOUR MISSING IN IK I Elevator Which Cost Ten Millions to Build Blow Up GRAIN DUMPED OUT Flood of Blazing Wheat Be lieved to Have Trapped 1 Victims CHICAGO, March 19 An explosion lot grain dust rocked the southern se - H tlon of Chicago early tonight, wrecked H one of tho world's largest grain ele-ivatom ele-ivatom ?nd broK every window frith - Of the nine watchmen trapped in J the structure by the blast, one is H , known to be dead and four arc ml;s- ( OST TEN MILLIONS. The elevator, which consisted of H j steel an.l concrete towers, was locat-led locat-led ln the southern outskirts of Eh H City on the banks of the Calumet river. It was built at a cost of more than i$lf'. .ind was operated by Hit, Armour Grain company. The explosion was itue, it was aald by offlclnK 'u a fire that star'e, i n , I loading chute: The blaze set fire to the dust-filled air and th resulting blast tent asunder tho big tower, releasing re-leasing thousands of bushels of grain FL 01 OF GRAIN. , So great was the force of the explosion ex-plosion that it hurled great concrete blocks hundreds of feet and derailed a freight train ut.mding on a nearby track. The few men in th elevator ..re thought to have been trapped hy the flood of baIng grain. L'p to lato tonight only on body had been re- H moved BVmr others ar known to havo escaped. H DAM IGE IS ITEVVY. Heavy damage was caused in near-by near-by towns by the explosion. Windows were shattered in Hammond. Whiting and East Chicago. The property loss at Whiting, according to merchants, will reach 10o,000. Normally about B, 000,000 bushels of " grain ar0 stored in th elevator, but at the time of tho blast ther was only about 500,000 bushels. This was destroyed de-stroyed by th fire that followed tho explosion. H IOS6 is so.oon oco. The explosion occurred Just after 150 employes had o,ult for the day. According to on oyo witness there were three separate explosions, the lat being the most severe. The ex-plosions ex-plosions tore the top off tho elevator. Early estimates put the property loss at $0,000,000. oo |