Show I BOMS OM EXPLODED i IN PINE BUILDING i Explosive Mysteriously Discharged Discharged Dis Dis- Discharged Dis- Dis charged in McHie Office Officer r 1 Building Jars Windows in Hammond Ind md CHICAGO Jan lun un 20 A A bomb explosion explosion sion in the finest office building in town yesterday ay startled and mystified the palice police po pa- lice lico and inhabitants of Hammond Inti Ind The building is c called the Si Sidmon mon Mt block and anti in it arc are the offices of the thc Hammond board of trade near which the explosion is il said to have bare oc oc- oc- oc currod Reports Exports 3 as to tho the nature of the outraces outrages out out- ra rages races cs are conflicting The police denied that they had any clues clue or oven even theories regarding regarding- the explosion A filled with dynamite aud at nt to a time fuse went off with a tremendous report and everybody with within ith in a Il distance of several se blocks pelt felt the shock Dishes and windows in were Wore rat rat- tied and the alarm was general l It The The explosion tore a hole bole in in the roof sai said one of the employees in tho building It was bi big en enough ugh for aman aman a aman man to drop through It is a miracle no ono one was injured a 3 as there were a number of men in tho the building at the tho time The fhe bomb ed was placed directly over the elevator shaft The person on who placed it there had plenty of time to escape as the time timo fu fuse o to which thich the tho bomb was connected probably burn burned cd for ten minutes before the thc explosion oc occurred Besides the board of trade the building build buill- in ing is occupied b by the Lake County Count Daily Times and numerous numerous professional men mm It is is owned h by Sidmon McHie of Chiea Chicago o. o McHie owns with his brother R. R H. H Mdllie c of Hammond a large Jarge grain rain elevator elevator elevator ele ele- ele- ele vator at Hammond |