Show v A Fourth of July Tragedy Springfield lIIOno child was killed ono probably fatally injured and two others were hurt In a cole bratlon of the Fourth of July at Chatham Chat-ham Frank Herrean engineer of a coal mine at Chatham took seven 2V gallon cans of powder with which to celebrate the Fourth and told the children not to touch the powder which ho left In the back yard The children finished supper before he did and went Into tho back yard and Mary 5 years old struck at match John 9 years old attempted to tear her hands away before tho powder exploded but was too late Mary was BO severely burned that sho died on trw way to a hospital In Springfield and John is terribly burned and any die Maggie aged 11 years and Ernest Ern-est aged 3 mouths were also burned mud are In a hospital |