Show FEARFUL EXPLOSION seventy people blown into alie air ONE OF THE MEN IS THROWN FIFTY FEET haifa million dollars worth of property destroyed CHICAGO april ag an explosion that pitched seventy people into the air throwing one man fifty feet wrecked seventeen large plate windows mined worth of clothing damaged a building to the extent of and canned a stampede of hundreds of people from upper stories of tall buildings occurred in the Dackson anc street this evening queer enough no one wa skilled although two or three may be fatally injured two workmen were drilling a hole across the street from the basement to maka a conduit for electric wires and accidentally punctured a gas main they lit a candae to see what was the matter and the next instant they seventy odd clerks and customers in the clothing store overhead the massive plate glass front and great piles of ready made clothing were mixed up almost in an inextricable lasswith mas broken timbers and falling plaster while the people for blocks around thought an earthquake had occurred and rushed to the acene the fire was quickly extinguished by the department two workmen in the basement were found to be very badly injured and three or four clerks in the store above were found to be injured internally one of them george dunlap when the explosion occurred was standing on a hot fire register and was thrown fifty feet landing on a pile of goods his back was badly injured cut lilT broat n if april 26 ben S robbing ABbia tant united states district attorney for colorado and formerly a state senator of kentucky and a prominent politician of that st ed suicide in bis room this by cutting his throat with a penknife JR had been disking heavily of late and at the time of the on hia life was suffering from a slight attack of delirium tre mena it is reported that domestic troubles together with the refusal of his wife to come to denver to live drove him to drink and to attempt hia life the physic ians are of the opinion he will recover ilia family in legrange Leg kentucky have been notified |