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Show I BOMB IS EXPLODED IN HEART OF CHICAGO wm!;!,IC,:GO,' V'? --Au explosion ,1C I licanl for ln,lcs occurred last night at Twenty-ilr-st and Canalstreets, partly wrecking the front of tho plant n. the Louis Ilutt Box eompanv, breaking break-ing hundreds of windows in the neighborhood neigh-borhood and causing terror to scores . of tamllics. Pclcr Wilhelm. a watch- l man employed at the Hntt plant, nar-rowly nar-rowly escaped losing his lire. A conduit cover ncross the street from the building. "It was found, had been blown into a dozen pieces, and this gave rise to the belie!" that thc explosion was due to a bomb placed. on thc cover. Recently Re-cently the Cosmopolitan JEleclrlc company com-pany has been having trouble with its linemen, it is said, and persons In the neighborhood expressed the belief that a bomb had been set off to damage the .wires of the electric company. Ernest J. Magcrstadl. city collector, who is president of thc Louis llult company, was one of those who attributed attrib-uted thc damage to a bomb. The damage dam-age amounts to about $10,000. |