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Show FIVE KILLED WHEN FIREWORKS EXPLDE RESIDENT OF DI8PLAY COM PANY AND FOUR EMPLOYEE8 L08E THEIR LIVES Pain Firework Display Compan) Plant Wrecked by Explosion and Fire at Chicago Wednesday. The dead nro II. TJ. Thearlo, prosl dent of the company; Florenco Hill stenographer; E. AI. Conner, saloa man; Roland H. Wolf, shipping clerk Joseph Johnson, electrician. John Costcllo, offlco boy, blows through a door into an alley, maj die. Firemen thought that sovera bodies might bo under tho dobrls lr tho flooded basement. The first explosion took place lc tho steel and concrcto vaults of thi Pain company's building In whlct $5,000 worth of fireworks won stored. Tho vaults wero supposed t( be fireproof nnd to bo ablo to with stand any explosion, but were blowt to atoms, djolnlng offlco building! wero shaken and damnged. Manj porsonB wero Injured by broken glasi nnd by being trampled. Tho explosion, it was thought might havo been caused by n sparV from wiring which Johnson, tho deac oleotriclan, was adjusting. |