Show CHICAGO FAMILIES TRAPPED BY BLAST Continued from page 1 shop lay lay In ruins ruins ruins' on the sidewalk side sidewalk I walk In the street ChI Chief f Peterman said there was wasa a deep hole In the basement of or orthe the tailor shop which supported the gas gas gas' explosion explanation Besides the tailor grocery and dry goods store a building believed belie to have been vacant was destroyed Several relatives of the Levin and families called at atthe atthe the morgue during the morning hours but none could identify I any of the remains Police finally decided it was futile to make further further fur tur- ther attempts at Identification due to the charred condition of ot the bodies ESCAPE IMPOSSIBLE Descriptions of the explosion given by two eyewitnesses Robert Robert Robert Rob Rob- ert Gruenig and Fred Robinson agreed that flames enveloped the buildings so quickly that escape was vas impossible Gruenig who lives across the street from tire destroyed was thrown from his bed by the force of ot the explosion Robinson a street streetcar car conductor who was preparing preparing ing to go on duty was also throw to the floor Levins sh shop p and the grocery store were were in flames when Gruenig I got to the window he saidI said o I heard several screams he hI said and then silence sa save va for tor forthe forthe the noise of or the fire The loss of the four story one-story brick buildings was Estimated at with rio no estimate te as to the value of their contents |