Show BLAST HITS HIT'S S CAPITAL S S I One Dead Four Four flying Dying After n in Basement of Store 2 29 Hurt When Detonation Detonation Detona Detona- tion Wrecks Front of 5 and 10 lO S t BODIES BODIES' AR ARE E SOU SOUGHT HT Oil Burner Bl Blamed m d for forS S Miah Mishap p W WASHINGTON A Nov Noy o 21 AP APOne AlOne AP- AP One person Is 18 dead four tour others are rep rt d near death in hospitals a nd 25 5 S' hurt as the result of ot an zion lon today In the basement of a a. 5 S Sand and nd cent 10 store Mrs drs Irs Elizabeth Dawson died dle I shortly dortly after being removed from he the wreckage wred S Mrs Anna Ahna nna May fay Cockerell And a a. year old child Mary Anne Cockerell Cockrell Cock- Cock rell erell Mrs Edn Edna Kent tnt and nd Warren Waren War War- ren en ren Thayer were In Jn 5 serious condition condition condi- condi tion lon at hospitals Mrs and the thc child 1 were In tho the store at athe atthe he the time of the he explosion Fire officials said bald they had traced the he cause of at the explosion to a n. hot hol wa wa cr er boiler under tho t In Inis Inthe n the is basement of ot tho the store The Tue top of ot the steel tank was wa found across across' the he str streetA street p er S SS S A ph J told nc newspapermen pa r en enne ne' ne p had pronoun pronounced ed two persons persona diw d ead ad hut hut- b lr-b lr bodies not been r reported port d fo found b by police Pollee ph Private lo automobiles a and ad d ambulances t lances rushed rushe-d. the tho varlo various s z hospitals Doctors r reported reported- p rt d. d that several everal persons had suffered sutter d' d fr frac N c. c and were suffering from injuries J rles The blast wrecked the front of or Rr a R. r McCrory 5 and cent 10 store lt re n near ar arSe Se Set Seventh t th and E streets northwest P Stoll said It wab was wa b relieved believed oo the explosion occurred in a astore astore astore store oil burner beneath the thc sidewalk sidewalk side side- walk or In a a. storage tan tank for oil nearby Tile street some feet away way from from- the he explosion was str strewn wn with wreckages wreckage Women's Women shoes and hats hats' of children lay Ia beneath tho the huge I locks blocks 8 of of concrete that had been hurled juried into the air Stores across across' the he street had their glass class windows windows- smashed mashed 1 |