Show = FOUR PEOPLE ARE KILLED iN AN EXPLOSION Kohl Torpedo Factory in Cleveland Is Destroyed SEVERAL ARE FATALLY HURT t TwentySeven Others More or t Less Seriously Injured From Two Hundred to Five Hundred Houses in Vicinity pf Factory Shattered and Wrecked Cleveland 0 May 2Ai explosion that caused death and destruction occurred In the plant of the Thor Manufacturing company at KIT Orange street this afternoon after-noon Thus iar four persona are dead while twentyseven others arc lying In hospitals some fntally and others more or less seriously injured DEAD Mrs Maurice Cohen aged TO Seaton Cohen aged 12 Benjamin Cohen aged 2o Harry 0Gluerchmariu aged 14 sick of typhoid fever In neighboring house died as a result of shock INJURED Mrs Anna Stone left eye torn out Her H-er scalp wounds deep cut In right cheek through the jawbone and bruised about tho shouders Lorctto Stone aped 5 end of tongue torn away and badly 1 cut about head Vera Stone aged 3 slightly cut about head Miss Lulu Hahn aged 20 cut about head face and hands A W Honwilz cut about cars and deep cut In right temple also sevcro scalp wound Mary Golobwltz aged 16 compound fracture frac-ture of loft arm badly l bruised In serious condition 1 Wilbur Cole aged 20 arm cut portion of nose torn away Florence Litzsteln aged 22 seriously cut about ace and head Mrs Henry Quass aged 35 cut about head and body Injuries serious Harry Quass aged 5 suffering from tho shock Mabel Quass aged 3 suffering from tho shock and cut about body Mamie Cower aged 15 suffering from shock eye blown out Mr J E Sillier cut about bend Jacob Cohen aged 13 badly cut about tho body Harry Cohen need 11 badly cut about tho face and body Ella Esterbrook aged 11 thrown against furnace and Injured LIzzlo Stern aged 8 cut by flying glass Mrs Esterbrook cut on forehead and bad cut on scalD scal-D Hollander shoulder sprained badly bruised Mrs L Page scalp and cars torn badly bad-ly bruised Willie Fertol badly bruised Augusta Wolff thrown to pavement taco torn Arthur Conway aged 11 cut and bruised Llllle AHhoff bruised Stella licrtzel Daisy Fouls Katie Flschct Belle Griffith all employed at the torpedo factory were cut and bruised fADE TOY TORPED CANES The Thor Manufacturing company Is engaged In the manufacture of toy torpedo tor-pedo canes and other explosives Tho company was In the midst of Its busiest season and extra girls were being employed em-ployed The force of the explosion was tremendous and windows vllhln a radius of a quarter of a mile wcra broken BURIED IN RUINS I In a house on Orange street ntfxt to the factory lived Maurlcn Cohen his wife and eight children With tho collapse col-lapse of tho houso simultaneously with the explosion the woman nnd four cull dicn woro caught In the falling partitions parti-tions and all were horribly bruised live li-ve taken out unconscious Three of this family arc dead ORIGIN OF FIRE The fire which caused the I explosion originated In a peculiar manner Tho torpedo cps arc Illied In molds and there Is constant danger of some of tim loose powder supposed to bo fulminate of mercury dropping on the ulcer For thN reason tho girls and boys who are em ployed In tho factory are compelled to n move their shoes vbllo at work so us to avoid strikIng spark CAUSE OF EXPLOSION The explosion was due to the frolicsome propensities of a new girl who hud betii employed at the plant less than a week Soma of the girls bad their shoes on nt tho lunch hour and one playfully shoved another As the girl slid along tho Jloor hor shoes struck a sparlc in aomo looso l powder Instantly tho flour wris ubloZi The lameR were easily subdued by l tlin firemen alter the explosion as hero I was nothing left of the factory but a rile of debris The property IOSH sustained by the torpedo tor-pedo company will not oxceod 10y4 |