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Show mmm mmm mm m. BUILDING DEMOLISHED AND WORKERS CRUSHED TO DEATH UNDER RUINS CHICAGO. March '-' (Hy I'nilrd .'rosa). Ten persona worn lorn to death and fifty injured today when an explosion rocked "Little Italy" in the heart of Chicago 'a tenement district. Invrati nation IchiIk authorities, to lxlievc the blast started in the paper warehouse of .Joseph Weil & Co. J)niiiH(fe will run clime to million dollar, police estimated. Thia ineludi-a the loaa of luill iiijrM and home in the vicinity that were splintered. On hundred families were mirilo homeless.. Harry Weil, aon of the owner of the paper house. anl N. Sehaffer, part owner of the Kinjrrr Rchaffer eompany merchandise warehouse, near the aeene, were taken to police liendiuarterH for quest ioninp. The cause f the Must is1 undetermined, hut these three theories have heen advanced: Labor feud, political feud or leaky pas main. Only a few of the maupled bodies pulled from the ruin have been identified. Police, however, immediately went to work on the theory that tha etploelon may hava been caused by a bomb and part of the political feud that haa waged In the "bloody nineteenth" for yeara. A torpedo cap waa found by Chief of Ietrtvee Mike llughea. who reached th ecen tonn after th diaaater. Police reaervca ruahed from all over th city when the general alarm of diaaater waa given. Klre crews from all polnia arrived. RESCUE THE DEAD AND DYINO. Th riploalon waa not followed by a fir, ao th fire fiKhtera turned their attention tn digging th drad and wounded nut of th wreckage. Injured were rushed to Improvlard hoapltala In the lclnlt. Home war thrown open for the car of thnx hurt. Thre li t i ma of the riploalon w ho were pulled from the mine wee badly mangled. I Th rxploaion waa henrd for tnlh-a nround. Ilciivy plat glasa wlndoaa I were amaahed within a radlua of one mile. A cordon nf nolle waa Immediately thrown almut the eccne to keen tsirk the frantic Italians who rushed to th scene to determine if any of I their relatives were among th victims. j Pleasant manner.-d Italian women, grnwn wild over the fenr that soma of their loved ones had been killed or injured, battled with th polle mi see If they could Identify anv of th victims. : THREE BODIES BADLY MANGLED. I Th first body to rench th county morgu was Identified, with difficulty I as that of Mike l.lpanskl. 1:, a trui k driver. He waa found underneath ! th wrecked building. Ilia brad was blown off. Two bodies with th heads blown off were carried nut on etretehers The foot of a girl, still neat wlih Its satin pump, w mied out and placed on a white canvas covered stretcher waning for the remainder of' the shattered histy. j A horse, with Its legs blown completely off. wna still HlUe when firemen' arrived, and Its howla of suffcrine were ended by a revolyer shot i MANY COTTAGES ARE DEMOLISHED. The Well I Pai-er company waa aurrotindid bv little lofiaeo inhabited! by Italians. Many of these home, were smashed tu atoms and tin- occupants. ; bleeding and bruised, forced to the street. I The. unfortunates were cared for bv mor fortunate fellow countrymen 1 who took them in their homes and cared for their Injuries I Police eaiimated that the Ion. from th esplosum would reach the' million-dollar murk. This Included the wrecked factory and the little home, fis'ar II. f |