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Show 5 KILLED, 12 HURT IN BUSTAT DETROIT DETROIT, Oct. 2 (jWFive men were killed and at least a dozen workers Injured this afternoon in a new Interceptor sewer on West Jefferson Jef-ferson avenue hers when a construction con-struction crew wss csught In a "ssnd boil." Less than an hour after the accident acci-dent occurred 13 men had been brought to the surface and taken to near-by hospitals. Workmen said that hydraulic pressure destroyed an air lock and a huge shield being pushed through clsy collapsed when It reached aand five feet from the completed aection of the tunnel. Police estimated at least 10 men were trapped in the sewer. |