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Show EXPLOSION OF TON OF 1 DYNAMITE KILLS FIVE , 4 Four Others Fatally Hurt in a Terrible Accident ai Gary, Ills. CHICAGO, Jan. 6 Five men were instantly in-stantly killed four others were fatally hurt and seven seriously Injured by the explosion of a ton of dynamite at th quarries of the Dolex eft Shepard company at Gar 111., today All of the men Injured In-jured are foreigner The cause of the explosion Is not known but It Is supposed that a box containing me hundred pounds of the explosive fell from the top of another coune while it was being warmed, prior to being used for I lasting purposes, and that the explolon of this amount set off the balance of the 2XW pounds Killed by Air Concussion, The building In Which the dvnamlte wi stored was at one end of a quarrv In which about fort men were working I There were seven men In the building Three of the men who worn instantb killed were at work In a trench abon' fifty feet from the building In which the dvnamlte was stored. The other two men were killed by the air concussion whiie working in a blacksmith shop close by. Of Die forty men at work In the quarry hardly one escaped Injury of some kind from the falling debris of the wrecked buildings, but only eleven of them were so bndly hurt as to require assistance l he building In which the dynamite wa-being wa-being warmed was entirely demolished and all of the other structures belonging to the plant were badl damaged. Th total loss to property is J2".oo |