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Show BIG FIRE IN KNOXVILLE Caused bj Explosion of Dynamite, It Causes a Loss of $250,000. KNOXVILLE. Tenn., Nov. 12. A fire, accompanied by an explosion of dynamite dyna-mite or powder, occurred today on Gay street, the principal business street of the city, and caused a loss of $250,000. Nine persons,, including six firemen, were injured. A number of other persons per-sons sustained cuts from flying glass, but none was seriously hurt. The fire originated from an unknown cause in the Woodruff Hardware company's com-pany's building, which was reduced to ashes. The building occupied by the Cable Piano company was wrecked by the explosion and the six-story Arnold, Ar-nold, Henigar & Doyle wholesale shoe house was damaged. As a result of the explosion almost all the window glass and many show cases in nearly every store within a radius of two blocks of the Are were shattered. The streets 1 were completely showered with frag- I ments. |