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Show BOMB EIPLOSIOII GHARGEOJO II W. NINE MEN AND WOMAN ARRESTED ARREST-ED FOLLOWING EXPLOSION IN CHICAGO. Four Killed and Seventy-five Injured When Federal Building Entrance Is Shattered, One of the Victims Being a Woman. Chicago. A bomb exploding in the entrance of the federal building Wednesday afternoon killed four persons per-sons and wounded 75 others. The blast was attributed to the I. W. W. by Philip J. Barry, acting chief of the local federal investigation bureau. While the city police were rushing the! wounded to hospitals, federal agents hurried from the building and made two raids on I. W. W. headquarters. headquar-ters. Nine men were bagged at these places and a woman was grabbed in a nearby office building. The list of dead follows: William H. Wheeler, a mail clerk; J. B. Ladd, a sailor from the Great Lakes Training Train-ing station, whose home was in Salina, Kan.; E. R. Kolkow, a postal clerk; Miss Helen Hiehike, of Chicago. The explosion wrecked the entrance of the.,- 'Ji'u; and shattered every i wind' ' . -- bm. j build' . niuii" -,... I w'hoiv nr. I prison sentences a .t" - , the sixth floor of the feiu-V. . j William D. (Big Bill) 7 .. "uncrowned king" of the I. W. W., V,,. in the building at the time of the explosion. ex-plosion. With his lawyer he was planning plan-ning to seek a writ of error to stay the execution of the L'0-year prison sentence given him. He deplored the outrage and admitted ad-mitted he thought the I. . W. would be blamed, but denied emphatically ; that any member of the organization j had committed the act. |