Show M KIlLS 11 SMASHES BUILDINGS Gallon Tank illI in ill I Boston Explodes Wrecks T reeks I Many l' Houses Portion of I Elevated Railway ay Line Linc B DOSTON OSTON Jan Ton l 13 Eleven Eleven Elc persons persona tare known to have been een killed and about fifty injured ed b by the explosion explosion sion of a a. ige tank of molasses on the thc water front off Commercial street near l Keany cany Square J today ay Eight Eglit bod bodies cs removed from the lu vr l U t i i men died cd T at t the tile MOst ot of tJi s 's r in suffered only from bruises Tho Tim tank was ivas owned b by the Purity Dj Distilling t company a subsidiary of or orthe the United States Industrial In Alcohol c company n nix a a plantain tin Cambridge S t muffled roar gayo sayo but an Instants Instant's in instants instant's In- In stants stant's warning before the top of the time tank was blown into the thc air The rhe circular circular circular cir cir- cir cir- cular wall vall broke broko Into two great segments seg sec meats ments of ot sheet Iron Iron which were impelled impelled im tin- In opposite directions Two wo million million mil ml- lion gallons of or molasses es rushed rushe In a mighty stream stream over tho the streets and and converted con Into a sticky mass tho the wreckage wreckage wreck wreck- age of or several small mall buildings which had been smashed b by the thc forc force of ot the explosion Near JJr c The tank was located a Q short dis- dis tanco from tho time bridge whore tho the Charles river empties Into the tho harbor On one Ido was a trolley freight yard ard with a long shed On the Iho other was a n city storage Hora e yard in which w stood two frame buildings s. Near the the tank stood the firehouse of ot a a. fireboat fireboat fire fire- boat boat known as engine No 31 Tho greatest mortality apparently occurred In one of ot the city buildings where wheN a score of or municipal employee were ere eating their lunch The building wao demolished The Tho other elt city build build- which had an office on the tho ground round floor and a tenement above was similarly sum sim torn from its foundations In Inthis Inthis this there thero ro were two women who were s severely Injured lOne One of or the time sections of ot th the tank wall wail fell on tho firehouse crushing It it Three Throe firemen two of whom had been engaged In a no card gamo game on ozi the second floor were burled buried In tho the ruins One was killed and tho other two were In In in- S SS 1 u le cil II Jt R R. R Damaged d Tho The S other half hall df dr the tank wall crashed against the structure of ot the Boston Hoston Elevated Ele railway In Commercial Commercial Commer Commer- cial street damaging three spans A train had hatI pa passed sed over the spot pot but buta a L moment before and antI another a short Continued on Page PaC 2 I I lABOR URGES PUBliC CONTROl fOR UTIliTIES Continued from om Pl PlO Page O 1 1 above the tine acreage which Is actually cultivated b by the thc owner and giving aid aidIn aidIn aidin In the allotment of or lands for Cor homebuilding homo home building on tho the public domain Stock ock Fu rm Urged Establishment of ot government So e experimental experimental ex ex- farms for forstock stock raising In Instruction Instruction In- In and extension of ot the program for reclaiming arid and or cu cr lands and of ot irrigation projects Le Legislation limiting and defining the powers power of oC corporations and anil ext extension of federal control of or corporations to supervision of or capital stock block Increases and Incurring of or bonded Indebtedness with a a. provision pro that co corporation books l 6 open ope II to federal Inspection Insl Removal al of or all aU restrictions on free speech individuals and groups to be oe beheld beheld held responsible for their utterances I Extension of workmen's laws Jaws to provide pro moro more adequately for tor Incapacitated by hy Industrial accidents and disease and state Insurance Insurance ance to supplant employers employers' liability Insurance Immigration Amendment to tho the Immigration laws 3 lawsto to restrict Immigration to the tho capacity of ot the United cl States Stales to assimilate and Americanize foreigners and to completely completely com com- ll teh restrict It for at least two years after the signing of r the peace tre t treaty and at an any future time limo when an abnormal abnormal ab ab- ab- ab normal de degree ree rec of unemployment exists t Increase in taxes on incomes in inheritances in- in herll and land values Representation of ot labor on school boards and recognition of oC tho the rights of oC tc teachers chers to organize operation Co of or public employment agencies with trade tralle unionists and elimination elimination elim oum- of or all private employment agencies Inauguration of ot a plan for tor tho the government gov SO government to construct model homes for workers and establishment of oC a system sya- sya tem of or credits by which may IAal borrow orrow funds to lo build homes Opportunities to to largo large standing alm army Continuation of or government o pa pay to discharged ch soldiers for tOI not to excel exceed ono one ear year If IC employment I la Is not mot In that time |