Show HAS tree three people killed as result of a bomb explosion at church celebration in kansas city hundreds of people crowded ln in a vacant lot where the accident occurred a panic ensuing in which the weaker ones onea were trampled upon kansas city three people were instantly killed by the explosion ot of a bomb during a postponed celebration of st johns day by the th of the tha holy rosary catholic church here sunday night two policemen were knocked town down and stunned another man sitting in a window several hundred feet away was so BO badly injured that lie he Is not expected to recover many others received minor injuries injury 1 es from the hying flying fragments of the bomb tho the explosion occurred tit a jaent lot opposite the church where the teal part art of tile tho celebration was being held hundreds of people were crowded in the lot the dead aret are antonio Gras who was lix in charge of touching off offlie of fire works A negro and aa who were bystanders the th explosion followed a day of festivity the alie fireworks in the earl daib part of the pro gramme had been dla played without mishap and almost every italian in tile the city was congregated tit in and about tile the lot Gras had constructed a bomb by filling a section of gas pipe with powder band and plugging up one end lie he had been warned to place it on oil the ground before firing it but neglected to in do so the crowd surged around him as he li knelt to light the fuse and bafo before re lie he could regain hla his feet tile the explosion occurred A partle panic followed as the crowd strove to get away the policemen who were stunned arid and knocked down had been detailed to the pl place placebo aceto to preserve order some one telephone hond the police station arid and ambulances soon arrived to cart care tor for tile the injured it was waa considered remarkable that many others were not killed tile the explosion blew out windows in the church and in nearby houses |