| Show DEAD EAD SCORES SCORE HURT IN BLAST T 30 PARED FEARED BURIED AS WAllS VALLS FAll Terrific Explosion Wrecks I Ohio State Building SCORE I IN HOSPITALS I Men Caught Under Crashing I Stones Feared Dead B Br Bi Associated Press Tress C COLUMBUS COLUMBUS' LUMBUS Ohio April 14 14 Six Six men were known to have been killed I between 20 and md 30 were reported buried bur bur- bur I fed under heavy stone and more than thana a score were in hospitals as a result of an explosion in Ohio's new state of office lice building late toda today One fireman who braved fire In Inthe Inthe Inthe the basement to search the ruins of the basement estimated that at least 20 men had been buried when a large section of oC the west wall was blown out I Assistant Safety Director Darrell I Jones of the Columbus police department department department depart depart- ment said he believed that at least 30 men had been caught under the falling fall fall- ing lag wall and were k killed SUPERINTENDENT HURT Among those reported seriously hurt was T. T C. C N Nebb ebb of Louisville Ky superintendent of construction The injured were removed to practically practically practically every pital in the city making an nn i immediate n definite check checkon on th tha total almost impossible Most of oC the injuries were vere said to tobe toe 1 be e broken legs and arms and severe lacerations and bruises The lives of firemen and other rescue rescue rescue res res- cue workers were endangered by live wires which fell leU into the street near near- b by While most of the wall vall was blown out toward the river quite a bit of oC the heavy marble toppled into the structure Firemen were making valiant efforts to 10 dig into the ruins to o determine if il any men had been buried juried but the fire lire was hampering them THRONGS GATHER Large crowds gathered in the vicinity vicinity vicinity vicin vicin- ity of the building and all reserve police police police po po- po- po lice were called out to control them The police established lines a block away from the vicinity fearing another another another an an- other blast might occur F. F O. O Everett of oC the Ohio Inspection Bureau advanced the theory that sewer gas seeping into the build building in had lad accumulated in the basement and andin andin andin in some undetermined manner was set off oiL Newspapermen at the scene reported that it seemed the entire Interior in interior In- In tenor of the building had been wrecked Firemen said there was little hope for or any of the men trapped by the debris While early estimates of the damage damage damage dam dam- age were it was feared by state officials that this would be much greater A large section of the west wall 35 feet high and feet long was blown out and the entire Interior of the structure which was in the thc last stages of oC construction was damaged The cause of the blast was unknown but authorities expressed the belief it was due to a collection of oC sewer gas in the thc basement set off oU in hi some Undetermined undetermined undetermined un un- determined manner Among those reported missing were three government building Inspectors who were said to have been on the ninth floor at the time of or the blast The bodies of the victims attested the force lorce of oC the bla blast l They were mangled badly Metal window frames were blown from basements and blocks of marble were sent hurtling hur through the air Into the river Some landed in the theard yard ard of Central high hish school yards away |
