Show FIVE PERSONS KILLED I Twelve Others Are Injured Four Probably Fatally by Explosion of a o S f j i Boiler in Chicagof t II 5 1 5 i Electric I Lighting i Plant I of f the t Chicago Northwestern Railway DesiroyedSeveral the Wounded WeYeon a Train Just Pulling Pull-ing Out from StationFlying Metal from Exploding Boilers Ploughing Through the Cars Chicago Dec 3Fhc railway employees em-ployees were Instantly I killed and twelve people injured by the nor n-or a boilerhouse of the Chicago Northwester railroad this evening Three of the Injured are hurt so badly that they may die DEAD August Clamman section foreman crushed by falling walls while standing near powerhouse Anthony Krause fireman at powerhouse power-house internally Injured died on the way to the hospital August Weiss section hand struck by boiler Joseph S Spccht section hand caught under boiler Henry Schnur 18 years old l clerk In auditing office of Northwestern road neck broken by flying debris while walking past the powerhouse SERIOUSLY INJURED John Butterworth chief electrician of powerhouse skull fractured internal injuries will probably die August Beck Milwaukee injured by part of roof of parlor car falling on him Mrs August Beck Milwaukee thrown against seat Internally inured in-ured Michael McGregor severely burned may die A number of strangers were standing around watching the dynamos in the electric light plant Four bodies were taken to the morgue BOILER STRIKES TRAIN I Just as the explosion occurred the Ashland limited train was pulling out I 1 of lip station Ttie greater part of lie train had passed and although all tho cars were heavily battered with falling bricks and debris only the last two coaches a Pullman sleeper and a draw ingroom car were badly damagedThe boiler head and the boiler Itself caught these coaches K The boiler struck the rear car while tho boiler head ploughed through the one immediately in front STRUCK BY SPLINTERS Fortunately both flew high and stru the car above the windows can carrying away portions of the roof and vestibule Few passengers happened I at the time to be in the ends of tIm l I two cars hit by the flying metal and such of them as were hurt were struck by flying splinters or suffered from being thrown violently to the floor BRIDAL COUPLES HURT On the train were Mr and Mrs August Au-gust Beck of Milwaukee and Mr and lI8 gst William Bicker of Sheboygan wis Both couples were returning from their bridal tour and nil four were Inured In-ured Mrs Beck was dashed against a seat in the car and sustained internal Injuries which may prove fatal Neither Neith-er of the cars was thrown from the track and the engine drew them quite a distance before coming to a stop Traffic n however was Interrupted for U nearly four hours STATION IN DARKNESS The destruction of the electric light destructon ing plant plunged the station into dark debris thrown ness and the pile of across the tracks temporarily blocked suburban trafllc The cause of the explosion ex-plosion is not known The property loss to the road will be 5100000 l |