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Show EXPLOSIONS. Natural Gas is the Cause or tlie Disaster. A PIUNTIMI OKI'lli: WIH.IKKI). Over a Score of rireracn Injured te-sides te-sides Many Labirers. IHO !tl IWAII.V lltltT, llio tiller .ir lie a lira llriiarluietit minx Ih. Horloti.ly lluiiiel. Cinciao, Jan. 4 .Shortly before 3 o'cliek this aiteruoon a tirrlllo rxplcalou of natural gas w recked the lower part of thti printing esPibllih-ireutof esPibllih-ireutof Uonohue and Honnobcrry on Dcaibcirn street. Tho accident occurred during thu progress o' a small ilru and ovpra,tcoru of II rumen wero Injured, Including Chief Bwieuy, bestdu n number ol laborers. Two aru djlug nud several others aro a? badly Injured that ihey are not eiected lu rtcover. An employee of the Natural (Jus company had repaired the connections In the vault and under thu slJewalk during the morning nnd about three Harm aw ere dlacovircd In tbe vicinity. Am alarm was Immediately given and the vault doors thrown 0en when a terrific explosion occmred. Ten employes em-ployes wero thrown to the lloor, all mora or lets Injured. Thn lire dc arlment at once arrived and ruthed to the vault, when another explo-lon occurred, hurling the firemen fire-men across the room with terrlllaforco nnd cruililqg them ugnlust tha wall. Bevernl men were rendered stme.'csa nud tho llames Ignited their clothlu , roasted their hands und faces lu a horrlblo manner. llefore half tho Injured were taken from the Irvemi ut and while llio place wasaniirmiug with llremcn lesiuing their comrades, u third explosion, more violent than tbe otbirs, took place, and tho WoulJ-be reacuers wero laid beside the nun theycamu to audit. Tho loosened Ironwork of the vault fell from the violence ol the rxplocUn and for a moment It was thought tbe building was coming down, but uono detent d other firemen rushed to tbo rescue of the unfoitunatcs In thu vault, aud one by una thu biirnoj and battered bat-tered men were tnken out. This waa barely acoompllsbvd when a i fourth violent ex luelou occurred, and bricks, mortar and Iron flew lu all dlriclloua, A putrol wagon was llnally deapatohed to notify the gas company to shut Oil the Hew, and when this waa doau tho llames aoon became under control, Tho building la badly strained ant lorn nutl ovcry pane ol glaaa In ths whole eight-story structure lay lu the street. The damngu la fully .",000, Borne 8W ooplo are employed lu Ibe building and they escapedawlluout In, jury or lanlc. These fatally burnid are James Hut. soil mil Thomas (Jallngcr, both firemen. fire-men. Among tho most seriously burned, but not fatally wero Chief Bweuney, Marshal U'Malle), thno captains, thrre lieutenants, eight flremtn, threo of Douohuo A Heuue-berry's Heuue-berry's employee, four laborers and an unknown cui loye of tho gas company. |