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Show WAGON LOAD OF EXPLOSIVES BEHIND RUNAWAY MTJXE3 HOUSTON, Tex., Jan. 2. A wagon load of fireworks from a wholesale store was accidentally touched off Jn the business bus-iness center last night, and there was a I pyrotechnic display for ten blocks. Several Sev-eral runaways resulted and people in t;,o street ran as though for their lives. The wagon was drawn by a gray I mule, and with the first outburst It began be-gan running with all speed. . The load Included several hundred roman candles, can-dles, various kinds of firecrackers, "nigger chasers." plnwheels, skyrockets and the like. The combustion resulted from a cigarette stump which a negro companion of the driver unthinkingly tossed back to him. It fell on a package pack-age of colored light powder and the disturbance dis-turbance at once began. The two men on theragon were badly bad-ly burned. Several persons were struck by flying skyrockets. The wagon was demolished. The mule was singed from head to foot and so badly injured that It was killed to end its sufferings. The loss was $1100. The negro who threw the cigarette was arrested. |