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Show EXPLOSION CAUSES FIRE. Dynamite Results in Conflagration In City of Knoxvillo. KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Nov. 12. A fire, accompanied by an explosion of dynamite dyna-mite or powder, occurred today on Gay street, the principal business street of the city, and caused a loss of $250,000. Nine persons, including six firemen, wero injured. A number of other persons per-sons sustained cuts from flying gloas, but none was seriously hurt. Tho fire originated from an unknown cause in the Woodruff Hardware com pany's building, which was reducod to ashes. The building occupied by tho Cable Piano company was wrecked by the explosion and the slx-atory Arnold, Ar-nold, Henigar & Doyle wholesale shoe house was damaged. As a result of the explosion almost all the window glass and many show caseB In nearly every store within a radius of two blocks of the fire were shattered. Tho streets wero completely showered with fragments. |