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Show Four Men Are Killed in Explosion Three Workmen and City Engineer of Chicago Perish in a Sewer. CHICAGO, June 11. By an explosion today In a huge sewer being constructed con-structed along Thirty-ninth street, manholes were blown up for many blocks, the street was badly torn and a frame building demolished. Four persons were killed. Three workmen, accompanied by City Engineer Guy Mlltimore, who carried a gasoline torch, were going down Into the sewer when they encountered sewer gas, and the explosion followed. All four men were killed. In addition to sewer gas. It is thought possible that petroleum had leaked Into the sewer, as for sixteen minutes after the explosion the Are burned fiercely. |